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Gentrification in Chinese Cities - State Institutions, Space and Society (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Gentrification in Chinese Cities - State Institutions, Space and Society (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Urban Sustainability
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This book provides an institutional interpretation of
state-facilitated gentrification in Chengdu, an emerging central
city of China. It generalizes the three aspects of institutional
changes in the cultural, economic and social spheres that have thus
far directed the operation of gentrification in the transitional
economy: the creative destruction of consumption spaces, the
spatial production of excess, and the unequal redistribution of
spatial resources to low-income residents. The interactions of
state and society, are examined in navigating the institutional
changes and forming the Chinese distinctions of gentrification. The
author argues that these three aspects of institutional changes
characterize gentrification in Chengdu as a transformative force of
development led by the state and capitalists and championed by
middle-class consumers. This gentrification mode periodically
catalyzes new spaces and collective cultures, which then
necessitate the stimulation of new consumption behaviors and the
formation of new consumer classes, at the expense of the spatial
demands for the even larger number of low-income residents.
However, in the context of China's unique state-society relations,
some low-income groups may also ride the wave of social
transformation. The author suggests that this type of
gentrification integrates into not the essence of uneven
geographical development in a capitalist society, but China's
unique model of urbanization and development, which is often
state-driven, innovative and even involuted so as to sustain
continuous growth. Though the research is focused on urban China,
this book also contributes to methodological issues on
gentrification research on a global scale. It is skeptical both of
the structural explanation and of the revelation of unsorted
differences; instead, it aims to generate midrange regularities of
gentrification in Chinese cities. Institutional change is treated
as an intermediary that, on the one hand, responds to the global
trends and, on the other hand, adapts to local preconditions. Mixed
methods, including statistical and spatial analysis, institutional
analysis, and an extensive ethnographic study, are used to
investigate gentrification from a structural perspective, a
historical perspective, and as a grounded process within the
locality.
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Imprint: |
Springer Verlag, Singapore
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Country of origin: |
Singapore |
Series: |
Urban Sustainability |
Release date: |
May 2022 |
First published: |
2022 |
Authors: |
Qinran Yang
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Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
209 |
Edition: |
1st ed. 2022 |
ISBN-13: |
978-981-19-2285-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Earth & environment >
Geography >
Human geography >
Economic geography
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LSN: |
981-19-2285-3 |
Barcode: |
9789811922855 |
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