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| List of figures | |
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| List of tables | |
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| Introduction | |
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| History and context | |
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| Contemporary forces | |
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| Understanding China's urbanization | |
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| Using this book | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| History and context | |
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| Geographical setting | |
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| The physical environment | |
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| Economic base | |
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| Population and peoples | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The historical urban system | |
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| Thinking about the historical Chinese urban system | |
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| How many Chinese cities were there? How large were they? | |
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| The early traditional period (206 BC-AD 589) | |
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| China's "medieval urban revolution" (589-1368) | |
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| Cities of the late imperial period (1368-1911) | |
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| Foreign empires expand into China: Treaty Port cities (1911-1949) | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Traditional urban forms | |
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| Urban plan and layout | |
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| Monumental structures | |
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| Neighborhoods and markets in traditional Chinese cities | |
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| Treaty Port (1842-1949) and Republican (1911-1949) eras | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Urbanization | |
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| The urban system since 1949 | |
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| How big are China's cities? How many cities are there? | |
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| Shifting urban development in the Maoist period (1949-1979) | |
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| The urban system during the reform era | |
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| The Chinese urban system today | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Urban-rural divide, socialist institutions, and migration | |
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| Urban-rural divide and its roots | |
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| Population mobility and migration | |
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| Migrants in the city | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Cities in the global economy | |
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| Toward an open economy | |
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| Becoming "factory of the world" | |
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| Moving toward knowledge-based and consumer economies | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Urban development | |
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| Urban restructuring and economic transformation | |
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| Revamping the urban economic landscape | |
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| Harnessing human resources | |
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| Redistributing economic growth | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Social-spatial transformation | |
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| Changing urban forms | |
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| Work and accessibility | |
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| Spatial reconfiguration and expansion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Urban infrastructure | |
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| The state of urban infrastructure | |
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| Financing urban infrastructure | |
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| Challenges | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Urban land and housing | |
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| Legacies of state socialism | |
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| Transition into land leasehold | |
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| Housing reforms and implications | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Urban life | |
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| Environmental quality and sustainability | |
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| State of the urban environment | |
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| Strategies for environmental sustainability | |
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| Environmental management | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Lifestyle and social change | |
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| Shopping and consumerism: changing landscapes and lifestyles | |
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| Public spaces and entertainment | |
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| Growing old in urban China | |
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| Crime and urban neighborhoods | |
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| Communities of difference: sexual preference, ethnicity, and art | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Urban governance and civil society | |
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| Reorganization of the state | |
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| Developmental state in the making | |
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| Evolving state-society relations | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Conclusion: looking toward the future | |
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| Future urbanization | |
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| Challenges for China's cities | |
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| Implications for the world | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |