Moving towards Neoliberal(izing) Urban Space: Housing and Residential Segregation in Beijing - Couverture souple

Weng, Guilan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3659599743 ISBN 13 : 9783659599743

Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

This book examines China’s urban housing system in the reform era and its social and spatial changes in Beijing. This book seeks to understand the nature of China’s reform and its socio-spatial ramifications, and challenges the convergence thesis that China’s reform is necessarily following the footsteps of those advanced capitalist cities. Using Beijing as a case, this book examines the relationship between the state, society and the urban development. This book particularly focuses on housing inequality and residential segregation in Beijing metropolitan area in the reform era. The examination of the state, the urban residents and the social space in terms of the new housing system shows that neoliberalism has not been a dominant ideology in Chinese society. Neoliberalism as policy-based practices was not implemented by either the central government or the local government. Neoliberalism as geovernmentality was only applied to those without any political power and outside the public sector.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr. Guilan Weng got her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Geography, University of Washington. Her research interests are China's urban social transition, housing inequality and residential segregation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3659599743
• ISBN 13: 9783659599743
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 372
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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