China's Urban Billion : the story behind the biggest migration in human history /: the story behind the biggest migration in human history. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tom Miller.
• Authors: (Journalist), Miller, Tom
• Contents: Asian Arguments; About the Author; Title page; Copyright; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Map of China; Introduction: The Biggest Migration in Human History; 1 By the Sweat of Their Brows: The People Who Built Urban China; Box 1.1 Beijing's slum clearances; Box 1.2 School's out; 2 Passport to Purgatory: Fixing the Hukou System; Box 2.1 Down and out in Beijing; The Chongqing model: paying for the mayor's new clothes; Box 2.2 City livin'; Box 2.3 River town scrubs up; 3 Farm versus Factory: The Battle over Land; Box 3.1 Flogging the fields; Yours to sell: the great land-credit experiment. Box 3.2 The beginning of the end for traditional farming?4 The Construction Orgy: Paving the Fields; Box 4.1 Tier what?; Box 4.2 Scrabbling to fill the city coffers: the role of local government investment companies; Chengdu and Wuhan: hinterland dynamos; Box 4.3 Riding the stimulus express; Box 4.4 Home, sweet home; 5 Ghost Towns in the Desert: How China Builds Its Cities; Grey, ugly and congested: why are so many Chinese cities so horrible?; Box 5.1 Kingdom of subways; Box 5.2 Beijing: Urban squires, city paupers; Box 5.3 Hangzhou: preservation with Chinese characteristics. Box 5.4 Tianjin: scrubbing upBox 5.5 Zhengzhou: the beauty in the beast; 6 A Billion Wallets: What China's New Urbanites Will and Won't Buy; Box 6.1 Want not, waste not; Box 6.2 Village life; Conclusion: Civilizing the Cities; Bibliography; Sources in English; Sources in Chinese; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (202 pages)
• Subjects: 307.14160951; Rural-urban migration -- China; Urbanization -- China; Human geography; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development; Rural-urban migration; Urbanization; China; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781780321431; 1780321430; 9781780321448; 1780321449; 1780321422; 9781780321424; 9781283754637; 1283754630
• Related ISBNs: 9781780321424; 9781780321417; 1780321414
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-186) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.