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Maturing Megacities - The Pearl River Delta in Progressive Transformation (Hardcover, 2014 ed.) Loot Price: R5,105
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Maturing Megacities - The Pearl River Delta in Progressive Transformation (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Uwe Altrock, Sonia Schoon

Maturing Megacities - The Pearl River Delta in Progressive Transformation (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)

Uwe Altrock, Sonia Schoon

Series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research

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This edited volume covers the multiple changes concerning urban governance in the course of the progressive transformation of the Pearl River Delta mega-urban region in China. Looking at the megacities Guangzhou and Shenzhen, it analyzes the maturing of socio-economic, political and spatial structures after the first waves of economic globalization, political transformation, and their rapid expansion and urbanization. The initial claim and starting point of the book is the existence of a profound multidimensional shift in the coastal mega-urban region with a major tendency towards urban upgrading, economic restructuring and a clearly observable consolidation of political institutions. For the first time since the beginning of the reform and opening up after 1978, this has led to a stronger bias toward urban regeneration, an adaptive re-use of the building stock and an establishment of post-industrial knowledge-based creative industries. The book investigates these changes as a set of mutually dependent developments that have to be understood and analyzed in connection with one another. Thus, the backgrounds and underlying forces that shape physical restructuring in the developed urban cores of the mega-urban region and the ways in which the relevant actors and institutions are trying to both cope with and to influence each other are introduced here.

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Imprint: Springer
Country of origin: Netherlands
Series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
Release date: September 2013
First published: 2014
Editors: Uwe Altrock • Sonia Schoon
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 389
Edition: 2014 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-9400766730
Categories: Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General
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LSN: 9400766734
Barcode: 9789400766730

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