The Great Urban Transformation. Politics of Land and Property in China.
Oxford. Oxford University Press. 2009. Stock ID #167000 "As China is transformed, relations between society, the state, and the city have become central. The Great Urban Transformation investigates what is happening in cities, the urban edges, and the rural fringe in order to explain these relations. When referring to this item please quote stockid 167000.
Black and white photographic illustrations, 258pp, bibliography, index, very good copy in dustjacket.
In the inner city of major metropolitan centers, municipal governments battle high-ranking state agencies to secure land rents from redevelopment projects, while residents mobilize to assert property and residential rights. At the urban edge, as metropolitan governments seek to extend control over their rural hinterland through massive-scale development projects, villagers strategize to profit from the encroaching property market. At the rural fringe, township leaders become brokers of power and property between the state bureaucracy and villages, while large numbers of peasants are dispossessed, dispersed, and deterritorialized, and their mobilizational capacity is consequently undermined." (Publisher's description).
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