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The Politics of Community Building in Urban China

Author : Thomas Heberer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136808434
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Community Building in Urban China written by Thomas Heberer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban China after the increased economization of life in the 1980s had initially forced it to withdraw. Based on several months of fieldwork in locations ranging from poor and dilapidated neighbourhoods in Shenyang City to middle class gated communities in Shenzhen, the authors analyze recent attempts by the central government to enhance stability in China’s increasingly volatile cities. In particular, they argue that the central government has begun to restructure urban neighbourhoods, and has encouraged residents to govern themselves by means of democratic procedures. Heberer and Göbel also contend that whilst on the one hand, the central government has managed to bring the Party-state back into urban society, especially by tapping into a range of social groups that depend on it, it has not, however, managed to establish a broad base for participation. In testing this hypothesis, the book examines the rationales, strategies and impacts of this comeback by systematically analyzing how the reorganization of neighbourhood committees was actually conducted and find that opportunities for participation were far more limited than initially promised. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese Studies, Development Studies, Urban Studies and Asian Studies in general.

The Politics of Community Building in Urban China

Author : Milton Cross
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781548542450
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Community Building in Urban China written by Milton Cross and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban China after the increased economization of life in the 1980s had initially forced it to withdraw. Based on several months of fieldwork in locations ranging from poor and dilapidated neighbourhoods in Shenyang City to middle class gated communities in Shenzhen, the authors analyze recent attempts by the central government to enhance stability in China's increasingly volatile cities.

The Politics of Community Building in Urban China

Author : Thomas Heberer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136808442
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Community Building in Urban China written by Thomas Heberer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban China after the increased economization of life in the 1980s had initially forced it to withdraw. Based on several months of fieldwork in locations ranging from poor and dilapidated neighbourhoods in Shenyang City to middle class gated communities in Shenzhen, the authors analyze recent attempts by the central government to enhance stability in China’s increasingly volatile cities. In particular, they argue that the central government has begun to restructure urban neighbourhoods, and has encouraged residents to govern themselves by means of democratic procedures. Heberer and Göbel also contend that whilst on the one hand, the central government has managed to bring the Party-state back into urban society, especially by tapping into a range of social groups that depend on it, it has not, however, managed to establish a broad base for participation. In testing this hypothesis, the book examines the rationales, strategies and impacts of this comeback by systematically analyzing how the reorganization of neighbourhood committees was actually conducted and find that opportunities for participation were far more limited than initially promised. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese Studies, Development Studies, Urban Studies and Asian Studies in general.

The Government Next Door

Author : Luigi Tomba
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455197
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Government Next Door written by Luigi Tomba and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese residential communities are places of intense governing and an arena of active political engagement between state and society. In The Government Next Door, Luigi Tomba investigates how the goals of a government consolidated in a distant authority materialize in citizens’ everyday lives. Chinese neighborhoods reveal much about the changing nature of governing practices in the country. Government action is driven by the need to preserve social and political stability, but such priorities must adapt to the progressive privatization of urban residential space and an increasingly complex set of societal forces. Tomba’s vivid ethnographic accounts of neighborhood life and politics in Beijing, Shenyang, and Chengdu depict how such local "translation" of government priorities takes place. Tomba reveals how different clusters of residential space are governed more or less intensely depending on the residents’ social status; how disgruntled communities with high unemployment are still managed with the pastoral strategies typical of the socialist tradition, while high-income neighbors are allowed greater autonomy in exchange for a greater concern for social order. Conflicts are contained by the gated structures of the neighborhoods to prevent systemic challenges to the government, and middle-class lifestyles have become exemplars of a new, responsible form of citizenship. At times of conflict and in daily interactions, the penetration of the state discourse about social stability becomes clear.

On Community Party Building in Urban China

Author : Chow Bing Ngeow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book On Community Party Building in Urban China written by Chow Bing Ngeow and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Politics of Civic Space in Asia

Author : Amrita Daniere
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134040210
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Civic Space in Asia written by Amrita Daniere and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how and why civic spaces are used by different communities in Asia and what role urban governance and public participation play in the support or demise of communities. Using case studies of contemporary city life throughout, the contributors provide insights into the importance and value of civic space, arguing that civic spaces provide not only the physical sites for civil society to function autonomously; but also provide a sense of place in the form of identity, meaning, memory, history and linkages with the wider world. Each chapter focuses on the production of and access to civic spaces in a particular Asian city, as well as examples of successes and failures that can inform urban policy regarding inclusive, tolerant and socially vibrant city life through focused attention on the provision and continuity of civic space. This book is designed to provide information to policymakers, researchers and students of the developing world regarding the importance and value of civic space in terms of creating and supporting urban communities. As such, The Politics of Civic Space in Asia will be an invaluable resource for those interested in urban planning, urban design, public policy and political science, as well as Asian studies more generally.

Social Space and Governance in Urban China

Author : David Bray
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804750387
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Social Space and Governance in Urban China written by David Bray and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The danwei (workunit) has been the fundamental social and spatial unit of urban China under socialism. With particular focus on the link between spatial forms and social organization, this book traces the origins and development of this critical institution up to the present day.

Handbook on Urban Development in China

Author : Ray Yep
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786431637
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Urban Development in China written by Ray Yep and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trajectory and logic of urban development in post-Mao China have been shaped and defined by the contention between domestic and global capital, central and local state and social actors of different class status and endowment. This urban transformation process of historic proportion entails new rules for distribution and negotiation, novel perceptions of citizenship, as well as room for unprecedented spontaneity and creativity. Based on original research by leading experts, this book offers an updated and nuanced analysis of the new logic of urban governance and its implications.

China's Urban Communities

Author : Peter G. Rowe
Publisher : Birkhäuser
ISBN 13 : 3035607060
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book China's Urban Communities written by Peter G. Rowe and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities in China are extremely dynamic and experience high pressure to grow, transform and adapt. But in what directions, on what basis and to which goals? The authors and their team have researched the intensive transformation processes of about twenty-five neighborhood communities that were created in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Suzhou in the last 30 years, ranging from inner-city to peripheral areas, starting from planning and leading up to user satisfaction studies. This in-depth overview on neighborhood typology and development in China follows the book Emergent Architectural Territories in East Asian Cities by Peter Rowe, who is among the world’s best scholars on urban transformation in East Asia, together with his colleagues Ann Forsyth and Har Ye Kan.

Gated Communities in China

Author : Choon-Piew Pow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113402097X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Gated Communities in China written by Choon-Piew Pow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the nature and dynamics of gated communities within the specificities of reform Shanghai, a city that arguably has been at the forefront of China’s new urban/consumer revolution.

Social Relations and Political Development in China

Author : Zhengxu Wang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000202364
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Social Relations and Political Development in China written by Zhengxu Wang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As China enters its proclaimed ‘New Era’ under President Xi Jinping, this book examines changes and continuity in social relations and political development, investigating new developments against the backdrop of continuations of long-term trends and previous policies. What has remained outside many scholarly discussions is a larger backdrop of continuity, into which the policies of Xi Jinping’s administration are inserted to further shape social, economic and political trajectories in contemporary China. Presented as a volume of methodologically diverse studies exploring some of the key aspects of social and political development in contemporary China, its authors examine the structural factors that continue to exert influence on China’s trajectory – in the ‘New Era’, as before – at the deeper and subtler levels. This is the first publication of its kind to focus on how continuity and change interplay under Xi; it enables readers to appreciate both genuine novelties and the enduring, long-term trends, as well as to estimate future trends in the proclaimed ‘New Era’ and beyond. Social Relations and Political Development in China will be of significant interest to students and scholars of Chinese studies, political science and sociology.

The Socio-spatial Design of Community and Governance

Author : Sam Jacoby
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811568111
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book The Socio-spatial Design of Community and Governance written by Sam Jacoby and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a new interdisciplinary understanding of urban design in China based on a study of the transformative effects of socio-spatial design and planning on communities and their governance. This is framed by an examination of the social projects, spaces, and realities that have shaped three contexts critical to the understanding of urban design problems in China: the histories of “collective forms” and “collective spaces”, such as that of the urban danwei (work-unit), which inform current community building and planning; socio-spatial changes in urban and rural development; and disparate practices of “spatialised governmentality”. These contexts and an attendant transformation from planning to design and from government to governance, define the current urban design challenges found in the dominant urban xiaoqu (small district) and shequ (community) development model. Examining the histories, transformations, and practices that have shaped socio-spatial epistemologies and experiences in China – including a specific sense of community and place that is rather based on a concrete “collective” than abstract “public” space and underpinned by socialised governance – this book brings together a diverse range of observations, thoughts, analyses, and projects by urban researchers and practitioners. Thereby discussing emerging interdisciplinary urban design practices in China, this book offers a valuable resource for all academics, practitioners, and stakeholders with an interest in socio-spatial design and development.

The Chinese Communist Party in Action

Author : Lance L.P. Gore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429534183
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Communist Party in Action written by Lance L.P. Gore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much is written about China and the role of the Chinese Communist Party, but without exploring in detail the nature of the party and how it operates. This book provides an in-depth assessment of the current state of the Chinese Communist Party. It outlines the huge size of the party – 88 million members with 4.3 million organizations at the grassroots level. It sets out how the party has developed over time, how the party is organized and how its ideology is formed and transmitted. It discusses how the party acts in the different areas of China’s economy, society and government, at local, regional and national levels. It explores the party’s role in the formation of policy, including foreign policy, and assesses the impact of different factions and of the current anti-corruption campaign. Overall, the book demonstrates how embedded the Communist Party is in all aspects of Chinese economy, society and politics, and how its position continues to be consolidated.

Community Building and Building the Community

Author : Ruiqi Zhu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Community Building and Building the Community written by Ruiqi Zhu and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The findings indicate that the presence of the local community building organization and the policy support from Shanghai's municipality played decisive roles in Xinhua's community building. Xinhua's community building has made significant strides in recent years but it still grapples with issues related to ambiguous property rights, social disconnection, government dominance, and incomplete community autonomy. The dependence on administrative power and fluctuating political interests underscores the importance of cultivating a more self-sufficient and resilient community building process. Nevertheless, community building activities in Xinhua significantly accumulate social capital in the community, which suggests prospects for further improvement. This study contributes to a more profound understanding of community building processes and their implications for urban development, governance, community autonomy, and local democracy, both in China and beyond.

Handbook on Local Governance in China

Author : Ceren Ergenc
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800883242
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Local Governance in China written by Ceren Ergenc and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrating the crucial importance of local governance in China’s development and international relations, this topical Handbook combines theoretical approaches with novel methodological tools to understand state–society relations at the local level.

To Govern China

Author : Vivienne Shue
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107193524
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book To Govern China written by Vivienne Shue and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a uniquely dynamic and fluid model of political evolution in the world's largest and most powerful authoritarian regime.

The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim

Author : Yizhao Yang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000532496
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim written by Yizhao Yang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-17 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook addresses a growing list of challenges faced by regions and cities in the Pacific Rim, drawing connections around the what, why, and how questions that are fundamental to sustainable development policies and planning practices. These include the connection between cities and surrounding landscapes, across different boundaries and scales; the persistence of environmental and development inequities; and the growing impacts of global climate change, including how physical conditions and social implications are being anticipated and addressed. Building upon localized knowledge and contextualized experiences, this edited collection brings attention to place-based approaches across the Pacific Rim and makes an important contribution to the scholarly and practical understanding of sustainable urban development models that have mostly emerged out of the Western experiences. Nine sections, each grounded in research, dialogue, and collaboration with practical examples and analysis, focus on a theme or dimension that carries critical impacts on a holistic vision of city-landscape development, such as resilient communities, ecosystem services and biodiversity, energy, water, health, and planning and engagement. This international edited collection will appeal to academics and students engaged in research involving landscape architecture, architecture, planning, public policy, law, urban studies, geography, environmental science, and area studies. It also informs policy makers, professionals, and advocates of actionable knowledge and adoptable ideas by connecting those issues with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. The collection of writings presented in this book speaks to multiyear collaboration of scholars through the APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes (SCL) Program and its global network, facilitated by SCL Annual Conferences and involving more than 100 contributors from more than 30 institutions. The Open Access version of chapters 1, 2, 4, 11, 17, 23, 30, 37, 42, 49, and 56 of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003033530, have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.