Globalization and the Chinese City
Along with China’s re-emergence on the world stage, the Chinese city is evolving
into the globalized world. These changes have brought many new dimensions to
Chinese urban life.
Globalization and the Chinese City
introduces readers to the far-reaching
global orientation that is now taking place in urban China. The contributors
describe overarching globalization through examining the transformation of the
built environment in detail. The contributors analyse many urban development
processes like urbanization, real estate development, changing landscapes, the
industrial restructuring of the second-tier city and the formation of the city-region
in the context of global and local interactions. The geographical coverage of the
book includes mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan in the Greater
China region, border/frontier regions, the cross-boundary city region and the
second-tier cities as well as China’s globalizing metropolises, such as Beijing,
Shanghai and Hong Kong. In examining city development and local practices as
part of the globalization processes, the global city is treated as a collection of
microcosms and concrete places, overcoming the analytical tension of the
dichotomy of the East versus West. This flexible and realistic approach is
particularly useful in going beyond the restrictive notion of globalization when
dealing with the non-Western world.
A comprehensive and well-edited volume,
Globalization and the Chinese City
is an important reference for all those interested in contemporary urban changes
under globalization and a key text for researchers and students of the Chinese
economy and society.
Fulong Wu
is a chair Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning at
the Cardiff University. His main research areas are urban spatial structure in
Chinese cities and urban housing and land development, and he received the 2001
Otto Koenigsberger Prize from Habitat International. He serves as a member of
the editorial advisory board of several architectural and planning journals and is
co-editor with Laurence J. C. Ma of
Restructuring the Chinese City
(Routledge,
2005).
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Globalization and the
Chinese City
Edited by Fulong Wu。