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Planning for Growth

Urban and Regional Planning in China

By: Fulong Wu

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Planning for Growth

Urban and Regional Planning in China

By: Fulong Wu

Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China provides an overview of the changes in China’s planning system, policy, and practices using concrete examples and informative details in language that is accessible enough for the undergraduate but thoroughly grounded in a wealth of research and academic experience to support academics. It is the first accessible text on changing urban and regional planning in China under the process of transition from a centrally planned socialist economy to an emerging market in the world. Fulong Wu, a leading authority on Chinese cities and urban and regional planning, sets up the historical framework of planning in China including its foundation based on the proactive approach to economic growth, the new forms of planning, such as the ‘strategic spatial plan’ and ‘urban cluster plans’, that have emerged and stimulated rapid urban expansion and transformed compact Chinese cities into dispersed metropolises. And goes on to explain the new planning practices that began to pay attention to eco-cities, new towns and new development areas. Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China demonstrates that planning is not necessarily an ‘enemy of growth’ and plays an important role in Chinese urbanization and economic growth. On the other hand, it also shows planning’s limitations in achieving a more sustainable and just urban future.

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Routledge

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1135078777

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9781135078775

Restructuring the Chinese City

Changing Society, Economy and Space

By: Laurence J.C. Ma,Fulong Wu

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Restructuring the Chinese City

Changing Society, Economy and Space

By: Laurence J.C. Ma,Fulong Wu

A sea of change has occurred in China since the 1978 economic reforms. Bringing together the work of leading scholars specializing in urban China, this book examines what has happened to the Chinese city undergoing multiple transformations during the reform era, with an emphasis on new processes of urban formation and the consequent reconstituted urban spaces. With arguments against the convergence thesis that sees cities everywhere becoming more Western in form and suggestions that the Chinese city is best seen as a multiplex city, Restructuring the Chinese City is an indispensable text for Chinese specialists, urban scholars and advanced students in urban geography, urban planning and China studies.

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Routledge

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1134316097

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9781134316090

Urban Development in Post-Reform China

State, Market, and Space

By: Fulong Wu,Jiang Xu,Anthony Gar-On Yeh

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Urban Development in Post-Reform China

State, Market, and Space

By: Fulong Wu,Jiang Xu,Anthony Gar-On Yeh

Radically reoriented under market reform, Chinese cities present both the landscapes of the First and Third World, and are increasingly playing a critical role in the country’s economic development. Yet, radical marketization co-exists with the ever-presence of state control. Exploring the interaction of China’s market development, state regulation and the resulting transformation and creation of new urban spaces, this innovative, key book provides the first integrated treatment of China’s urban development in the dynamic market transition. Focusing on land and housing development, the authors, all renowned authorities in this field, show how the market has been ‘created’ under post-reform urban conditions, and examine ‘the state in action’, highlighting how changing urban governance towards local entrepreneurial state facilitates market formation. A significant, original contribution, they highlight the key actors and their institutional contexts. China has been very successful in using urban land development as an economic growth engine, and here the authors investigate complex interactions between the market and state in creating this new urbanism. Taking a unique perspective, they marshal original ideas and empirical work based on field studies and collaborative work with colleagues in China.

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380

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Routledge

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1134162154

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9781134162154

Urban Poverty in China

By: Fulong Wu,Chris Webster,Shenjing He,Yuting Liu

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Urban Poverty in China

By: Fulong Wu,Chris Webster,Shenjing He,Yuting Liu

Wow! What a tour de force! This timely, masterly work does everything, from broad empirical comparison to theory, quantitative correlation to case studies of neighborhoods and quotations from individual life histories. Its findings from 25 neighborhoods in six cities demonstrate convincingly that urban destitution is not homogeneous, is concentrated in and generated by location, and has patterned institutional roots that produced varying processes of pauperization. This superb book must put to rest once and for all references to Chinese poverty as a matter of just the rural areas and their residents. Dorothy J. Solinger, University of California, Irvine, US Market reform has brought new forms of poverty to urban China, even while the standard of living of most urban residents has greatly improved. This research uses interviews with people in six cities to document their situation and to show how poverty is rooted in the failure of support systems in their neighborhoods and communities. It offers a stark evaluation of a system of inequalities that is only beginning to be addressed by state policy. John R. Logan, Brown University, US Urban poverty is an emerging problem. This book explores the household and neighbourhood factors that lead to both the generation and continuance of urban poverty in China. It is argued that the urban Chinese are not a homogenous social group, but combine laid-off workers and rural migrants, resulting in stark contrasts between migrant and workers neighbourhoods and villages. The expert authors examine the new urban poor in China and the dynamics of their poor neighbourhoods, highlighting both household experience and neighbourhood changes affecting the urban poor. Urban Poverty in China is based upon a comprehensive household survey in six Chinese cities and provides insights into microscopic and neighbourhood-level poverty dynamics. The comprehensive study explores the spatial implications such as concentration of poverty as well as the differentiation within poor neighbourhoods. This informative book tells an insightful story about evolving urban poverty in Chinese cities that will be invaluable to researchers and postgraduate students within urban studies, geography, social policy and development studies as well as Chinese and Asian studies. It will also prove to be an invaluable read for researchers in urban and social development and international development agencies.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1849803560

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9781849803564

Creating Chinese Urbanism

Urban revolution and governance changes

By: Fulong Wu

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Creating Chinese Urbanism

Urban revolution and governance changes

By: Fulong Wu

Creating Chinese Urbanism describes the landscape of urbanisation in China, revealing the profound impacts of marketisation on Chinese society and the consequential governance changes at the grassroots level. During the imperial and socialist periods, state and society were embedded. However, as China has been becoming urban, the territorial foundation of ‘earth-bound’ society has been dismantled. This metaphorically started an urban revolution, which has transformed the social order derived from the ‘state in society’. The state has thus become more visible in Chinese urban life. Besides witnessing the breaking down of socially integrated neighbourhoods, Fulong Wu explains the urban roots of a rising state in China. Instead of governing through autonomous stakeholders, state-sponsored strategic intentions remain. In the urban realm, the desire for greater residential privacy does not foster collectivism. State-led rebuilding of residential communities has sped up the demise of traditionalism and given birth to a new China with greater urbanism and state-centred governance. Taking the vantage point of concrete residential neighbourhoods, Creating Chinese Urbanism offers a cutting-edge analysis of how China is becoming urban and grounds the changing state governance in the process of urbanization. Its original and material interpretation of the changing role of the state in China makes it suitable reading for researchers and students in the fields of urban studies, geography, planning and the built environment.

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307

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UCL Press

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1800083335

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9781800083332

Restructuring the Chinese City

Changing Society, Economy and Space

By: Laurence J.C. Ma,Fulong Wu

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Restructuring the Chinese City

Changing Society, Economy and Space

By: Laurence J.C. Ma,Fulong Wu

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1134316089

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Urban Poverty in China

By: Fulong Wu,Chris Webster,Shenjing He,Yuting Liu

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Urban Poverty in China

By: Fulong Wu,Chris Webster,Shenjing He,Yuting Liu

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 43 -

By: Mustafa Dike¿,Matthew Gandy,Ananya Roy,Fulong Wu

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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 43 -

By: Mustafa Dike¿,Matthew Gandy,Ananya Roy,Fulong Wu

Since its foundation in 1977 IJURR has been at the cutting-edge of critical urban scholarship. IJURR is taking forward its commitment to interdisciplinary and international urban research, connecting with new audiences and debates, consolidating its position as a leading publication in the field. Explores questions and themes of interest to a wide readership including urban planners, architects and practitioners Includes both stand-alone articles and critical dialogues Connects with critical debates in the policy-making and professional arenas Uses visual materials ranging from architectural sketches, film stills and photographs to various explanatory figures and tables.

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216

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Wiley

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1119563283

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9781119563280

Book's by Fulong Wu

Planning for Growth

Planning for Growth

Restructuring the Chinese City

Restructuring the Chinese City

Urban Development in Post-Reform China

Urban Development in Post-Reform China

Urban Poverty in China

Urban Poverty in China

Creating Chinese Urbanism

Creating Chinese Urbanism

Restructuring the Chinese City

Restructuring the Chinese City

Urban Poverty in China

Urban Poverty in China

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 43 -

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 43 -

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