Description:Each year more than 15 million Chinese leave the country's rural areas and move to the cities. This book documents and analyses the meteoric rate of urbanization of the countryside around Shanghai, most particularly the part played there by new towns and new villages. Some pilot new towns have been developed with the help of Western designers, and adapted to suit Chinese standards.Contributions by Harry den Hartog, Jiang Jun, Li Xiangning, Laurence Liauw Wie Wu, Richard Rowland (photo essay), Zhou Jing, Marijn Nieuwenhuis and Mari Fujita.Bilingual edition: English and Chinese.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shanghai New Towns: Searching for Community and Identity in a Sprawling Metropolis. To get started finding Shanghai New Towns: Searching for Community and Identity in a Sprawling Metropolis, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
416
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
010
Release
2010
ISBN
906450735X
Shanghai New Towns: Searching for Community and Identity in a Sprawling Metropolis
Description: Each year more than 15 million Chinese leave the country's rural areas and move to the cities. This book documents and analyses the meteoric rate of urbanization of the countryside around Shanghai, most particularly the part played there by new towns and new villages. Some pilot new towns have been developed with the help of Western designers, and adapted to suit Chinese standards.Contributions by Harry den Hartog, Jiang Jun, Li Xiangning, Laurence Liauw Wie Wu, Richard Rowland (photo essay), Zhou Jing, Marijn Nieuwenhuis and Mari Fujita.Bilingual edition: English and Chinese.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shanghai New Towns: Searching for Community and Identity in a Sprawling Metropolis. To get started finding Shanghai New Towns: Searching for Community and Identity in a Sprawling Metropolis, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.