Asian Urban and Regional Studies
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Property Rights and Urban Transformation in China
Zhu Qian
‘Zhu Qian provides an incredibly thorough treatment of property rights in China. Most importantly, this remarkable book investigates China’s urban transformation corresponding to changing property regimes. His explanations of the pivotal... -
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Elusive Capital
François Gipouloux
‘Examining the details of Chinese three major merchant groups between the 14th and 19th centuries, Professor Gipouloux compares and contrasts the Chinese model of wealth accumulation with the European model of capital concentration. The ... -
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From Eco-Cities to Sustainable City-Regions
Ernest J. Yanarella, Richard S. Levine
‘This remarkable book brings a bold new vision to achieve highly-integrative systemic performance at the scale of the City-as-a-Hill and its surrounding rural partner land. No less, it provides the means for the ambitious sustainability ...eBook:Find out more$36.00
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Field Guide for Research in Community Settings
Edited by M. R. Islam, Niaz A. Khan, Siti H.A.B. Ah, Haris A. Wahab, Mashitah B. Hamidi
‘Occasionally, a particularly insightful work is published with much potential for fostering improved learning and application. This is such a book. The Field Guide offers vital guidance on conducting fieldwork across contexts for commun...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Ageing in Place
Edited by Bruce Judd, Kenichi Tanoue, Edgar Liu
‘This comprehensive book provides a unique offering to our understandings of ageing in place. It is particularly valuable in highlighting the differences and similarities in supporting and assisting ageing in place across countries with ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Smart Cities in Asia
Edited by Yu-Min Joo, Teck-Boon Tan
‘This book is a timely and welcome addition to the growing body of knowledge on smart cities in Asia. Covering major smart cities in East, Southeast and South Asia, it thoughtfully examines the reasons why these conurbations are eagerly ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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High Speed Rail and China’s New Economic Geography
Zhenhua Chen, Kingsley E. Haynes, Yulong Zhou, Zhaoxin Dai
‘This timely book by Chen and Haynes provides a variety of quantitative evidences on how this new transportation innovation has reshaped China’s economic geography. This inspiring analysis effectively connects many inter-related pieces t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Making Hong Kong
Pui-yin Ho
‘As this book makes clear, Hong Kong has successfully thrived against all odds to develop into a world city of fame and substance. Town planning certainly has its role and major political turning points have been capitalised on to the ci...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Understanding China's Urbanization
Li Zhang, Richard LeGates, Min Zhao
‘. . . this book does an excellent job of distilling huge amounts of information on the last four decades of China’s great economic and urban transformations into a highly readable text and gets across very clearly its central message of...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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China’s Urban Century
Edited by François Gipouloux
‘Overall, this is an admirable group effort by Chinese and European scholars and institutions to jointly study Chinese urbanism. It offers useful narratives that map the macro trends of Chinese urbanization.’ – Xuefei Ren, Paciffic AffairseBook:Find out more$40.00
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Property Rights, Land Values and Urban Development
Li Tian
‘The Chinese leadership anticipates that one hundred million people will move from rural areas to China’s cities between 2014 and 2020 – perhaps the greatest migration in human history. Property ownership and use rights, compensation for...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Neighbourhood Governance in Urban China
Edited by Ngai-Ming Yip
As the economy and society of China has become more diversified, so have its urban neighbourhoods. The last decade has witnessed a surge in collective action by homeowners in China against the infringement of their rights. Research on ne...eBook:Find out more$40.00
