China: A Historical Geography of the Urban

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Ding, Yannan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Marinelli, Maurizio (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Zhang, Xiaohong (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Sociology, Urban.; Human geography.; Urban geography.; Cities and towns-History.; China-History.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Human Geography.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Urban History.; History of China.

This book offers a unique contribution to the burgeoning field of Chinese historical geography. Urban transformation in China constitutes both a domestic revolution and a world-historical event. Through the exploration of nine urban sites of momentous change, over an extended period of time, this bo...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. Introduction; Yannan Ding
• PART I. Nation and City
• Chapter 2. Shanghai Parks in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century - Architectural and Cultural Exchanges between the East and the West; Hsiu-Ling Kuo. Chapter 3. A City of Workers, a City for Workers? Remaking Beijing Urban Space in the Early PRC; Fabio Lanza
• Chapter 4. Changchun across 1949: Rebuilding a Colonial Capital City under Socialism in the Early 1950s; Yishi Liu
• PART II. Mediating History and Modernity
• Chapter 5. Tunxi: Urban Sectoral Agglomeration in a Regional Center of Tea Trade; Yi Zou, Xi Lin
• Chapter 6. What's in a Name: The 'New Village' in Shanghai, 1930-1980; Duan Zheng, Xiaohong Zhang
• Chapter 7. The View of Comparison about Politics of Street Names between Taipei and Shanghai; Wenchuan Huang
• PART III. Contemporary City Building
• Chapter 8. Disneyfication or Self-referentiality: Recent Conservation Efforts and Modern Planning History in Datong; Shulan Fu, Jean Hillier
• Chapter 9. The Politics of Aesthetics in Tianjin between Past and Present; Maurizio Marinelli
• Chapter 10. Living in the "Past": The Effects of a Growing Preservation Discourse in Contemporary Urban China; Philipp Demgenski.