Aspects of urbanization in china —— shanghai, hong kong, guangzhou

----- 中国的城市化进程：上海，香港，广州

ISBN: 9789089643988 出版年：2012 页码：211 Bracken, Gregory Amsterdam University Press

China’s rise as a global power is one of the transformative events of our time. Hundreds of millions of people have been lifted out of poverty thanks to the country’s rapid industrialisation. One seemingly inevitable outcome of industrialisation is urbanisation, and this definitive study examines some of the key aspects of China’s massive wave of urbanization, which is the largest the world has ever seen. With contributions from scholars from a variety of disciplines, including architecture, urbanism, social sciences, area studies, geography and anthropology, the point of departure for each chapter is always the city – in this case the cities of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Guangzhou. The study creates a resonant portrait of the cities’ global ambitions, their cultural and architectural expression, as well as the cinematic representation of the country’s massive rural-urban migration.