Housing inequality in Chinese cities
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Housing inequality in Chinese cities
(RoutledgeCurzon contemporary China series, 115)
Routledge, 2014
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  Fukushima
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  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In recent decades, Chinese cities have experienced profound social, economic and spatial transformations. In particular, Chinese cities have witnessed the largest housing boom in history and unprecedented housing privatization. China now is a country of homeowners, with more than 70 per cent of urban residents owning homes, higher than many developed countries.
This book shows how China's spectacular housing success is not shared by all social groups, with rapidly rising housing inequality, and residential segregation increasingly prevalent in previously homogeneous Chinese cities. It focuses on the two extremes of the residential landscape, and reveals the stark contrast between low-income households who live in shacks in so-called 'urban villages' and the nouveaux riches who live in exclusive gated villa communities. Over four parts, the contributors look at the degree to which inequality affects Chinese cities, and the extent of residential differentiation; housing for the urban poor, and in particular, housing for migrants from rural China; housing for the rapidly expanding Chinese middle class and the new rich; and finally, governance in residential neighbourhoods.
Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities presents theoretically informed and empirically grounded research into the polarized residential landscape in Chinese cities, and as such will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese studies, urban geography, urban sociology, and urban studies.
Table of Contents
Part I: Housing Inequality and Residential Differentiation 1. Housing Inequality, Residential Differentiation, and Socio-spatial Stratification: Chinese Cities in the Early 21st Century 2. Residential Change and Housing Inequality in Urban China in Early 21st Century: Analysis of Guangzhou Survey Data 3. Mobility, Housing Inequality and Residential Differentiation in Transitional Urban China: A Case Study of Wuhan 4. Neighborhood Differentiation and Inequality in Nanjing: Implications for Planning a Harmonious Society Part II: Housing for Migrants and the Urban Poor 5. Migration and the Dynamics of Informal Housing in China 6. Housing Access, Sense of Attachment, and Settlement Intention of Rural Migrants in Chinese Cities: Findings from a Twelve-City Migrant Survey 7. Effectiveness, Efficiency and Equity - An Empirical Evaluation of the Cheap Rental Housing System in Beijing, China Part III: Housing for the Middle Class and the Rich 8. The Gated Communities of Chateaux in China: Back to Feudalism? 9. The Imagination of Class and Housing Choices of the Middle Class: Case Studies in Shanghai and Beijing 10. Living the Networked Life in the Commodity Housing Estates: Everyday Use of Online Neighborhood Forums and Community Participation in Urban China Part IV: Neighborhood Governance under Housing Commodification 11. The Contentious Democracy: Homeowners Associations in China through the Lens of Civil Society 12. Managing the Nouveaux Riches: Neighborhood Governance in Upmarket Residential Developments in Shanghai13. Uneven "Right to the City": Theorizing the New Communal Living Space and a New Form of Urban Politics in China
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