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  • Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia

    Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei beyond Developmental Urbanization

    Edición de Im Sik Cho, Blaz KRIZNIK, Jeffrey Hou ...
    Series series Asian Cities
    In parts of Asia, citizens are increasingly involved in shaping their neighbourhoods and cities, representing a significant departure from earlier state-led or market-driven urban development. These emerging civic urbanisms are a result of an evolving relationship between the state and civil society. The contributions in this volume provide critical insights into how the changing state–civil ... Leer más

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  • Insurgent Public Space

    Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities

    Edición de Jeffrey Hou ...
    Winner of the EDRA book prize for 2012.In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These ‘insurgent public spaces’ challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how they can transform the city environment. No longer confined to traditional public areas like neighbourhood ... Leer más

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  • City Unsilenced

    Urban Resistance and Public Space in the Age of Shrinking Democracy

    Edición de Jeffrey Hou, Sabine Knierbein ...
    What do the recent urban resistance tactics around the world have in common? What are the roles of public space in these movements? What are the implications of urban resistance for the remaking of public space in the "age of shrinking democracy"? To what extent do these resistances move from anti- to alter-politics?City Unsilenced brings together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars and scholar ... Leer más

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  • Now Urbanism

    The Future City is Here

    After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums. The contemporary cities we know are more often the embodiment of unexpected outcomes and unintended consequences rather than visionary planning.As an alternative approach for rethinking and remaking today’s cities and regions, this book ... Leer más

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  • Transcultural Cities

    Border-Crossing and Placemaking

    Edición de Jeffrey Hou ...
    Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and activists in architecture, urban planning, urban studies, art, environmental psychology, geography, political science, and social work. The book addresses the ... Leer más

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  • Design as Democracy

    Techniques for Collective Creativity

    Winner of the Environmental Design Research Association's 2018 Book AwardHow can we design places that fulfill urgent needs of the community, achieve environmental justice, and inspire long-term stewardship? By bringing community members to the table, we open up the possibility of exchanging ideas meaningfully and transforming places powerfully. Collaboration like this is hands-on democracy in ... Leer más

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  • The New Rich in China

    Future rulers, present lives

    Edición de David Goodman ...
    Three decades of reform since 1978 in the People’s Republic of China have resulted in the emergence of new social groups which have included new occupations and professions generated as the economy has opened up and developed and, most spectacularly given the legacy of state socialism, the identification of those who are regarded as wealthy. However, although China’s new rich are certainly a ... Leer más

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  • Chinese Women - Living and Working

    de Anne McLaren ...
    Series series ASAA Women in Asia Series
    This book presents significant new findings on new domains of employment for women in China's burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and the twenty-first century. Experts in gender, politics, media studies, and anthropology discuss the impact of economic reform and globalization on Chinese women in family businesses, management, the professions, the prostitution industry and domestic service. ... Leer más

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  • Learning from Shenzhen

    China's Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City

    This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China's contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transformed from an experimental site for economic reform into a dominant city at the crossroads of the global economy. The first of China's special economic ... Leer más

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  • Planning for Ethnic Tourism

    Series series New Directions in Tourism Analysis
    Ethnic tourism has emerged as a means that is employed by many countries to facilitate economic and cultural development and to assist in the preservation of ethnic heritage. However, while ethnic tourism has the potential to bring economic and social benefits it can also significantly impact traditional cultures, ways of life and the sense of identity of ethnic groups. There is growing concern in ... Leer más

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  • Civil Society under Authoritarianism

    The China Model

    Despite the dominant narrative of the repression of civil society in China, Civil Society under Authoritarianism: The China Model argues that interactions between local officials and civil society facilitate a learning process, whereby each actor learns about the intentions and work processes of the other. Over the past two decades, often facilitated by foreign donors and problems within the ... Leer más

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  • Paradise Redefined

    Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World

    de Vanessa Fong ...
    In 2004, Vanessa Fong offered a groundbreaking ethnographic exploration of the social, economic, and psychological development of children born since China's one-child policy was introduced in 1979. Her book Only Hope left readers with a picture of stressed, ambitious adolescents for whom elite status was the ultimate goal, though relatively few were in a position to achieve it.In Paradise ... Leer más

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