The City in China
eBook - ePub

The City in China

New Perspectives on Contemporary Urbanism

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The City in China

New Perspectives on Contemporary Urbanism

About this book

In 1915 Robert Park penned his seminal paper "The City: Suggestions for the investigation of human behaviour in the city environment". This essay provided an agenda for the Chicago School of Urban Sociology, which formed the basis of urban research for decades.

Given that China's urban centres now occupy the spotlight that once belonged to American cities, Park's essay is a platform and point of departure for this volume, which gathers together reflections from a broad range of urban China specialists to consider Park's (ir)relevance today – for cities in China, for questions about the social life of the city and for urban research more generally.

Essential for a broad range of urban studies scholars, this book is an invaluable teaching resource and a useful tool for policy-makers and planners.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Tables and Figures
  6. Notes on Contributors
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Preface
  9. 1. Robert Park in China: From the Chicago School to Urban China Studies
  10. 2. “Bewitched by the History Behind the Walls”: Robert Park and the Arc of Urban Sociology from Chicago to China
  11. 3. Moral Order in the Post-Socialist Chinese City: Generating a Dialogue with Robert E. Park’s “The City”
  12. 4. Learning from Chicago (and LA)? The Contemporary Relevance of Western Urban Theory for China
  13. 5. From Chicago to Shenzhen, via Birmingham: Zones of Transition and Dreams of Homeownership
  14. 6. Urbanization and Economic Development: Comparing the Trajectories of China and the United States
  15. 7. The Handshake 302 Village Hack Residency: Chicago, Shenzhen, and the Experience of Assimilation
  16. 8. Beijing Ring Roads and the Poetics of Excess and Ordinariness
  17. 9. Pathways to Urban Residency and Subjective Well-Being in Beijing
  18. 10. A Study of Socio-spatial Segregation of Rural Migrants in Shenzhen: A Case of Foxconn
  19. 11. The Anxious Middle Class of Urban China: Its Emergence and Formation
  20. 12. Conclusion: Everyday Cities, Exceptional Cases