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The Habitable City in China - Urban History in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017) Loot Price: R4,262
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The Habitable City in China - Urban History in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Toby Lincoln, Xu Tao

The Habitable City in China - Urban History in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

Toby Lincoln, Xu Tao

Series: Politics and Development of Contemporary China

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This book offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history by exploring cities as habitable spaces. China, the world's most populous nation, is now its newest urban society, and the pace of this unprecedented historical transformation has increased in recent decades. The contributors to this book conceptualise cities as first providing the necessities of life, and then becoming places in which the quality of life can be improved. They focus on how cities have been made secure during times of instability, how their inhabitants have consumed everything from the simplest of foods to the most expensive luxuries, and how they have been planned as ideal spaces. Drawing examples from across the country, this book offers comparisons between different cities, highlights continuities across time and space-and in doing so may provide solutions to some of the problems that continue to affect Chinese cities today.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Politics and Development of Contemporary China
Release date: November 2016
First published: 2017
Editors: Toby Lincoln • Xu Tao
Dimensions: 210 x 148 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 231
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-55470-3
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities
Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General
Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General
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LSN: 1-137-55470-3
Barcode: 9781137554703

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