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Book Synopsis Ghost Cities of China by : Wade Shepard
Download or read book Ghost Cities of China written by Wade Shepard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, the country's urban population will leap to over one billion, as the central government kicks its urbanization initiative into overdrive. In the process, traditional social structures are being torn apart, and a rootless, semi-displaced, consumption orientated culture rapidly taking their place. Ghost Cities of China is an enthralling dialogue driven, on-location search for an understanding of China's new cities and the reasons why many currently stand empty.
Book Synopsis Ghost Citizens by : Lukasz Krzyzanowski
Download or read book Ghost Citizens written by Lukasz Krzyzanowski and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poignant story of Holocaust survivors who returned to their hometown in Poland and tried to pick up the pieces of a shattered world. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the lives of Polish Jews were marked by violence and emigration. But some of those who had survived the Nazi genocide returned to their hometowns and tried to start their lives anew. Lukasz Krzyzanowski recounts the story of this largely forgotten group of Holocaust survivors. Focusing on Radom, an industrial city about sixty miles south of Warsaw, he tells the story of what happened throughout provincial Poland as returnees faced new struggles along with massive political, social, and legal change. Non-Jewish locals mostly viewed the survivors with contempt and hostility. Many Jews left immediately, escaping anti-Semitic violence inflicted by new communist authorities and ordinary Poles. Those who stayed created a small, isolated community. Amid the devastation of Poland, recurring violence, and bureaucratic hurdles, they tried to start over. They attempted to rebuild local Jewish life, recover their homes and workplaces, and reclaim property appropriated by non-Jewish Poles or the state. At times they turned on their own. Krzyzanowski recounts stories of Jewish gangs bent on depriving returnees of their prewar possessions and of survivors shunned for their wartime conduct. The experiences of returning Jews provide important insights into the dynamics of post-genocide recovery. Drawing on a rare collection of documents—including the postwar Radom Jewish Committee records, which were discovered by the secret police in 1974—Ghost Citizens is the moving story of Holocaust survivors and their struggle to restore their lives in a place that was no longer home.
Book Synopsis Cities and Stability by : Jeremy Wallace
Download or read book Cities and Stability written by Jeremy Wallace and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's management of urbanization is an under-appreciated factor in the regime's longevity. The Chinese Communist Party fears "Latin Americanization" -- the emergence of highly unequal megacities with their attendant slums and social unrest. Such cities threaten the survival of nondemocratic regimes. To combat the threat, many regimes, including China's, favor cities in policymaking. Cities and Stability shows this "urban bias" to be a Faustian Bargain: cities may be stabilized for a time, but the massive in-migration from the countryside that results can generate the conditions for political upheaval. Through its hukou system of internal migration restrictions, China has avoided this dilemma, simultaneously aiding urbanites and keeping farmers in the countryside. The system helped prevent social upheaval even during the Great Recession, when tens of millions of laid-off migrant workers dispersed from coastal cities. Jeremy Wallace's powerful account forces us to rethink the relationship between cities and political stability throughout the developing world.
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Book Synopsis The South China Sea: A Look into China’s Modern Times Maritime Silk Road and Its Geopolitical Implications by : Fritz Dufour, Linguist, MBA, DESS
Download or read book The South China Sea: A Look into China’s Modern Times Maritime Silk Road and Its Geopolitical Implications written by Fritz Dufour, Linguist, MBA, DESS and published by Fritz Dufour. This book was released on 2017-07-08 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Westward expansion has always been more important to China than eastward expansion because except for the Korean peninsula and Japan, China is looking at the vast Pacific Ocean. The west has always been and continues to be China’s lifeline. China has come a long way. Civilizations rise and fall. They come and go. But the Chinese civilization is one of the oldest and most stable. The Chinese engaged in world trade way before America was even discovered. They did that thanks to the Silk Road, which was an ancient caravan route linking Xi'an in central China with the eastern Mediterranean. It was established during the period of Roman rule in Europe, and took its name from the silk which was brought to the west from China . Although trading with the West was quintessential, China has always sought to retain their own economic model. When the four leading powers of the West – England, France, Spain, and Portugal - decided to build their politico-economic empires on triangular trade or face failure, China was thriving, as it had been for millennia. But World War II dealt a serious blow to China’s economy as the United states emerged as the only superpower on both the political and economic levels and put shortly after a policy of containment towards China. That, along with past failures, exacerbated if not China’s resentment at least its mistrust towards the West and, especially towards the United States.
Book Synopsis The Ghost Cities of Australia by : Julian Bolleter
Download or read book The Ghost Cities of Australia written by Julian Bolleter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-02 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines failed new city proposals in Australia to understand the hurdles – environmental, societal, and economic – that have curtailed such visions. The lessons from these relative failures are important because, if projections for Australia’s 21st century population growth are borne out, we will need to build new cities this century. This is particularly the case in northern Australia, where the federal government projects a four-fold increase in population in the next four decades. The book aims that, when we commence 21st century new city dreaming, we have learnt from the mistakes of the past and, are not doomed to repeat them.
Book Synopsis Affordable Housing in the Urban Global South by : Jan Bredenoord
Download or read book Affordable Housing in the Urban Global South written by Jan Bredenoord and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global increase in the number of slums calls for policies which improve the conditions of the urban poor, sustainably. This volume provides an extensive overview of current housing policies in Asia, Africa and Latin America and presents the facts and trends of recent housing policies. The chapters provide ideas and tools for pro-poor interventions with respect to the provision of land for housing, building materials, labour, participation and finance. The book looks at the role of the various stakeholders involved in such interventions, including national and local governments, private sector organisations, NGOs and Community-based Organisations.
Book Synopsis An Urban History of China by : Toby Lincoln
Download or read book An Urban History of China written by Toby Lincoln and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this accessible new study, Toby Lincoln offers the first history of Chinese cities from their origins to the present. Despite being an agricultural society for thousands of years, China had an imperial urban civilization. Over the last century, this urban civilization has been transformed into the world's largest modern urban society. Throughout their long history, Chinese cities have been shaped by interactions with those around the world, and the story of urban China is a crucial part of the history of how the world has become an urban society. Exploring the global connections of Chinese cities, the urban system, urban governance, and daily life alongside introductions to major historical debates and extracts from primary sources, this is essential reading for all those interested in China and in urban history.
Book Synopsis Resurgent Africa by : Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka
Download or read book Resurgent Africa written by Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Resurgent Africa: Structural Transformation in Sustainable Development’ is a study of structural change dynamics in Africa and its effect on job creation, living standards and the efficiency of productive cities through manufacturing productivity growth that benefit the majority. Empirical data from selected African countries, including Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia, provides in-depth analysis and knowledge of the continent’s diversified economies by establishing relationships between industrialization trends; rates of urbanization; and urban living standards, income growth and employment in Africa. The findings reveal unconventional pathways of structural change, patterns of jobless growth suggesting economic growth that does not necessarily lead to employment, dominance of services at the expense of manufacturing industry explaining the regress in Africa’s industrial sector and occurrence of structural transformation without improvement in labour productivity. These are important concerns for Africa’s long-term development leading to the conclusion that sustainable urbanization and industrialization are not only closely connected but also key drivers of economic change. The book includes recommendations for policymakers to adopt a new approach to development for a resurgent Africa.
Book Synopsis Strongest Conceited Emperor by : Qing ChunYiWang
Download or read book Strongest Conceited Emperor written by Qing ChunYiWang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After transmigrating, he would become the dead young master, and obtain a mysterious object. For the sake of family, for the sake of his beauties, for the sake of the closest person beside him, Mu Lingfeng started to walk the path of a strong warrior step by step. The path of the strong was filled with thorns and thorns, but it was unable to obstruct the heart of a strong practitioner. Group number: 469668435 [closed]
Book Synopsis Living with Precariousness by : Christina Lee
Download or read book Living with Precariousness written by Christina Lee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precariousness has become a defining experience in contemporary society, as an inescapable condition and state of being. Living with Precariousness presents a spectrum of timely case studies that explore precarious existences at individual, collective and structural levels, and as manifested through space and the body. These range from the plight of asylum seekers, to the tiny house movement as a response to affordable housing crises; from the global impacts of climate change, to the daily challenges of living with a chronic illness. This multidisciplinary book illustrates the pervasiveness of precarity, but furthermore shows how those entanglements with other agents, human or otherwise, that put us at risk are also the connections that make living with (and through) precariousness endurable.
Book Synopsis The 1931-1940: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States by : American Film Institute
Download or read book The 1931-1940: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States written by American Film Institute and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Book Synopsis Cities and Cultural Landscapes by : Greg Bailey
Download or read book Cities and Cultural Landscapes written by Greg Bailey and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Places are locations of value where psychological and cultural needs are satisfied. Human relationships with particular environments play a key role in motivating, developing, and nurturing the life of societies. Undifferentiated space becomes ‘place’ as we understand it better and its built and natural forms become endowed with value. However, misunderstanding the critical importance of heritage locations, particularly based on rejection of local and regional distinctiveness, has often led to their destruction. Featuring essays from across central Europe and beyond, and aimed at practitioners, decision makers and concerned citizens alike, this book raises awareness about the responsibility that we bear for every action taken that modifies the formal and socio-cultural context. Potentially, these actions can negatively impact the cultural landscape. Learning to recognize the essential value of heritage to the ‘place-ness’ of our cities and landscapes is vital in helping us to preserve and enjoy their intrinsic beauty and cultural importance.
Book Synopsis Capital Cities: Varieties and Patterns of Development and Relocation by : Vadim Rossman
Download or read book Capital Cities: Varieties and Patterns of Development and Relocation written by Vadim Rossman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of capital city relocation is a topic of debate for more than forty countries across the world. In this first book to discuss the issue, Vadim Rossman offers an in-depth analysis of the subject, highlighting the global trends and the key factors that motivate different countries to consider such projects, analyzing the outcomes and drawing lessons from recent capital city transfers worldwide for governments and policy-makers. Capital Cities studies the approaches and the methodologies that inform such decisions and debates. Special attention is given to the study of the universal patterns of relocation and patterns specific to particular continents and mega-regions and particular political regimes. The study emphasizes the role of capital city transfers in the context of nation- and state-building and offers a new framework for thinking about capital cities, identifying six strategies that drive these decisions, representing the economic, political, geographic, cultural and security considerations. Confronting the popular hyper-critical attitudes towards new designed capital cities, Vadim Rossman shows the complex motives that underlie the proposals and the important role that new capitals might play in conflict resolution in the context of ethnic, religious and regional rivalries and federalist transformations of the state, and is seeking to identify the success and failure factors and more efficient implementation strategies. Drawing upon the insights from spatial economics, comparative federalist studies, urban planning and architectural criticism, the book also traces the evolution of the concept of the capital city, showing that the design, iconography and the location of the capital city play a critical role in the success and the viability of the state.
Download or read book Woman City written by Sidi Benzahra and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-04-13 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woman City is a city where children would play and never have to worry about being kidnapped, molested, or killed. Where men would not be needed and would not be found. Where all the laws that had been established by men, would fall and crumble, and where the laws that would be ordained by free women would stand. Where the philosophies that regarded men with favor would be discredited, and where new philosophies would come hand in hand. Where a woman would take back her body and do whatever she wanted to do with it, and where the souls of innocent women that had been raped, killed and thrown in the woods to rot, or kicked in the stomach so that they could lose their babies, would cry to the sky, would take back the night, would take back the body, and take back the soul.
Book Synopsis GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT by : PRABHU TL
Download or read book GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT written by PRABHU TL and published by NestFame Creations Pvt Ltd.. This book was released on with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "Gross Domestic Product" refers to the total monetary value of all final goods and services produced (and sold on the market) within a country over a given time period (typically 1 year). The gross domestic product (GDP) is the most widely used indicator of economic activity. At the end of the 18th century, the first basic concept of GDP was developed. The modern concept was developed by American economist Simon Kuznets in 1934 and adopted as the primary indicator of a country's economy at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference. What does the term "Gross" mean? The term "gross" (as in "Gross Domestic Product") denotes that goods are counted regardless of how they are used. A product can be consumed, invested in, or used to replace an asset. In every case, the final "sales receipt" for the product will be added to the total GDP figure. "Net," on the other hand, does not take into account products used to replace an asset (in order to offset depreciation). The term "net" only refers to products that are intended for consumption or investment. What does"Domestic" stand for? (GDP vs. GNP and GNI) Household (GDP) The term "domestic" (as in "Gross Domestic Product") denotes a geographical inclusion criterion: goods and services counted are those produced within the country's borders, regardless of the producer's nationality. The output of a German-owned factory in the United States, for example, will be counted as part of the country's GDP. Gross National Product (GNP) "National" (in "Gross National Product"), on the other hand, indicates that the inclusion criterion is based on citizenship (nationality): goods and services are counted when produced by a country's national, regardless of where the production takes place physically. In this case, the output of a German-owned factory in the United States will be counted both as part of Germany's GNP and as part of the United States' GDP. GNI Because both are based on nationality rather than geography, GNI (Gross National Income) is a metric similar to GNP. The difference is that GNI uses the income approach to calculate total value, whereas GNP uses the production approach to calculate GDP. Theoretically, GNP and GNI should produce the same result. What does the term "Product" mean? The term "product" (as in "Gross Domestic Product") refers to the final goods and services that are sold on the market.
Book Synopsis The Rise of India and China by : Kala S Sridhar
Download or read book The Rise of India and China written by Kala S Sridhar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comparative analysis of the rise of India and China and their decisive economic and social roles in a global context. It presents a cumulative picture of the socio-economic challenges as well as the opportunities for growth and inclusive development before India and China. The volume analyses the performance of the two countries based on economic and human development indicators. It highlights the key achievements of the two countries in governance and financial growth, and the potential for further economic development. Drawing on government data and empirical research, the book examines India and China’s relative growth in trade, investments, renewable energy technologies, urbanisation, and employment and their policies on agriculture, land use, public health, and rural-urban inequality. Further, it discusses the shared challenges of inequality, poverty, gender disparity, and environment degradation which both countries face and contrasts their policy priorities and governance mechanisms. Comprehensive and insightful, this book will be of great interest for researchers and scholars of development studies, economics, international relations, comparative politics, sociology, public policy, and Asian studies. It will also be useful for think tanks, policy makers, and general readers interested in the India–China relationship.
