Screen LibraryChina's urban billion：the story behind the biggest migration in human history
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Zed Books Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | London New York New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Asian arguments |
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| Carrier Form: | vii, 192 p.: map ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781780321417 (pbk.) 1780321414 (pbk.) 9781780321424 1780321422 |
| Index Number: | F299 |
| CLC: | F299.21 |
| Call Number: | F299.21/M651 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-186) and index. Introduction : the biggest migration in human history -- By the sweat of their brows : the people who built urban China -- Passport to purgatory : fixing the Hukou system -- Farm versus factory : the battle over land -- The construction orgy : paving the fields -- Ghost towns in the desert : how China builds its cities -- A billion wallets : what china's new urbanites will and won't buy -- Conclusion : civilizing the cities. "By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban billion lead? And what will China's cities be like? Over the past thirty years, China's urban population expanded by 500 million people, and is on track to swell by a further 300 million by 2030. Hundreds of millions of these new urban residents are rural migrants, who lead second-class lives without access to urban benefits. Even those lucky citizens who live in modern tower blocks must put up with clogged roads, polluted skies and cityscapes of unremitting ugl |