Title: Urban China in Transition (Studies in Urban and Social Change)
Description: Using an innovative approach, this book interprets the unprecedented transformation of contemporary China's major cities. It deals with a diversity of trends and analyzes their sources.    Offers a multi-dimensional analysis of urban life in China  Highlights a diversity of trends in the areas of migration, criminal victimization, gated communities, and the status of women, suburbanization, and neighbourhood associations  Each chapter includes input from both an expert on urban life in China and an 'outside' expert from the fields of sociology, geography, economics, planning, political science, history, demography, architecture, or anthropology  An alternative theoretical perspective comparing the Chinese experience with other urban settings in the United States, Poland, Russia, Vietnam, East and South East Asia, and South America
Subjects: Nonfiction, Sociology, Urbanization, Urban Sociology, Rural-urban migration, Cities and towns, china, China, economic conditions, China, social conditions, Urbanisation, Exode rural, Sociologie urbaine, Steden, Sociale verandering, Landflucht, Stadtentwicklung, Wirtschaftsreform, Stadssociologi, Urbanisering