New urban China

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Liauw Laurence
Published: Wiley,
Publisher Address: London
Publication Dates: 2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Architectural design profile
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Carrier Form: 136 p.: col. ill., maps, plans ; 28 cm.
ISBN: 9780470751220 (pbk.)
0470751223 (pbk.)
Index Number: TU984
CLC: TU984.2
Call Number: TU984.2/N532
Contents: Includes bibliographical references.
'Leaping forward, getting rich gloriously, and letting a hundred cities bloom' / Laurence Liauw -- The taxonomy of contemporary Chinese cities (we make cities): a sampling / Jiang Jun and Kuang Xiaoming -- The institutional and political background to Chinese urbanisation / Sun Shiwen -- Urbanisation in contemporary China observed: dramatic changes and disruptions / Huang Weiwen -- Urbanisation in China in the age of reform / Zhang Jie -- Leaving utopian China / Zhou Rong -- The Chinese city: a self-contained utopia / Neville Mars -- The 'people's city' / Wang Jun -- Street life and the 'peo