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China's Urban Billion the story behind the biggest migration in human history

Summary: Over the past thirty years, China?s cities became home to 500 million new residents. China?s urban population is on track to reach 1 billion by 2030. The rapid expansion of urban China is astonishing, but new policies are urgently needed to create healthier cities. Combining on-the-ground reportage and up-to-date research, this pivotal book explains why China has failed to reap many of the economic and social benefits of urbanization, and suggests how these problems can be resolved.

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ISBN: 9781780321431 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1780321430 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781780321448 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1780321449 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (202 p.)
Publisher: London : Zed Books, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Formatted Contents Note:	Asian Arguments; About the Author; Title page; Copyright; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Map of China; Introduction: The Biggest Migration in Human History; 1 By the Sweat of Their Brows: The People Who Built Urban China; Box 1.1 Beijing's slum clearances; Box 1.2 School's out; 2 Passport to Purgatory: Fixing the Hukou System; Box 2.1 Down and out in Beijing; The Chongqing model: paying for the mayor's new clothes; Box 2.2 City livin'; Box 2.3 River town scrubs up; 3 Farm versus Factory: The Battle over Land; Box 3.1 Flogging the fields; Yours to sell: the great land-credit experiment.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.