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Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities (Paperback)
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Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
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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.
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