China's Urban Billion : the story behind the biggest migration in human history /

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Author / Creator:	Miller, Tom (Journalist), author.
Imprint:	London : Zed Books, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (202 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Asian Arguments Asian arguments.
Subject:	Rural-urban migration -- China. Urbanization -- China. Rural-urban migration. Urbanization. China. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11166934

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ISBN:	9781780321431 1780321430 9781780321448 1780321449 1780321422 9781780321424 9781283754637 1283754630 9781780321424 9781780321417 1780321414
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-186) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Over the past thirty years, China?s cities became home to 500 million new residents. China?s urban population is on track to reach 1 billion by 2030. The rapid expansion of urban China is astonishing, but new policies are urgently needed to create healthier cities. Combining on-the-ground reportage and up-to-date research, this pivotal book explains why China has failed to reap many of the economic and social benefits of urbanization, and suggests how these problems can be resolved.
Other form:	Print version: Miller, Tom. China's Urban Billion. London : Zed Books, 2012 9781780321431

Table of Contents:

Asian Arguments; About the Author; Title page; Copyright; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Map of China; Introduction: The Biggest Migration in Human History; 1 By the Sweat of Their Brows: The People Who Built Urban China; Box 1.1 Beijing's slum clearances; Box 1.2 School's out; 2 Passport to Purgatory: Fixing the Hukou System; Box 2.1 Down and out in Beijing; The Chongqing model: paying for the mayor's new clothes; Box 2.2 City livin'; Box 2.3 River town scrubs up; 3 Farm versus Factory: The Battle over Land; Box 3.1 Flogging the fields; Yours to sell: the great land-credit experiment.
Box 3.2 The beginning of the end for traditional farming?4 The Construction Orgy: Paving the Fields; Box 4.1 Tier what?; Box 4.2 Scrabbling to fill the city coffers: the role of local government investment companies; Chengdu and Wuhan: hinterland dynamos; Box 4.3 Riding the stimulus express; Box 4.4 Home, sweet home; 5 Ghost Towns in the Desert: How China Builds Its Cities; Grey, ugly and congested: why are so many Chinese cities so horrible?; Box 5.1 Kingdom of subways; Box 5.2 Beijing: Urban squires, city paupers; Box 5.3 Hangzhou: preservation with Chinese characteristics.
Box 5.4 Tianjin: scrubbing upBox 5.5 Zhengzhou: the beauty in the beast; 6 A Billion Wallets: What China's New Urbanites Will and Won't Buy; Box 6.1 Want not, waste not; Box 6.2 Village life; Conclusion: Civilizing the Cities; Bibliography; Sources in English; Sources in Chinese; Index.

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