From Village to City
Andrew B. Kipnis
University of California Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
Between 1988 and 2013, the Chinese city of Zouping transformed from an impoverished town of 30,000 people to a bustling city of over 300,000, complete with factories, high rises, parks, shopping malls, and all the infrastructure of a wealthy East Asian city.
From
V
illage to
City paints a vivid portrait of the rapid changes in Zouping and its environs and in the lives of the once-rural people who live there.
Despite the benefits of modernization and an improved standard of living for many of its residents, Zouping is far from a utopia; its inhabitants face new challenges and problems such as alienation, class formation and exclusion, and pollution. As he explores the city’s transformation, Andrew B. Kipnis develops a new theory of urbanization in this compelling portrayal of an emerging metropolis and its people.
Kundenbewertungen
global development, rapid growth in china, urbanization of chinese cities, economic growth in zouping, urban planning china, chinese urbanization, urban theory, chinese towns, urbanization, wealth in china, development boom chinese village, zouping, rural to urban development, china, class formation in new urban spaces in china, emerging metropolis in china, modernization in china, chinese infrastructure, chinese growth