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Urbanization and Urban Governance in China : Issues, Challenges, and Development
This book explores the process of urbanization and the profound challenges to China’s urban governance.Economic productivity continues to rise, with increasingly uneven distribution of prosperity and accumulation of wealth.The emergence of individual autonomy including demands for more freedom and participation in the governing process has asked for a change of the traditional top-down control system.The vertical devolution between the central and local states and horizontal competition among local governments produced an uneasy political dynamics in Chinese cities.Many existing publications analyze the urban transformation in China but few focuses on the governance challenges.It is critical to investigate China’s urbanization, paying special attention to its challenges to urban governance.This edited volume fills this gap by organizing ten chapters of distinctive urban development and governance issues.
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Back to Earth : Urbanization without Depletion
The Senegalese building collective Studio Suddo Neuve is calling for a paradigm shift in the West African construction sector.The collective has been focusing on substituting the ubiquitously-present concrete blocks with earth-based materials.While this volume primarily documents the practical aspects of building with earth, it also examines urbanization and construction processes in the region.The detailed manual for the production and application of earth blocks underlines the contribution nature-based products can have for the transformation toward regenerative building practices and suggests its potential for global application.The project showcases how local materials can be adapted to contemporary building demands while retaining a minimized environmental impact. A handbook on building with earth blocks A West African perspective on the global reorientation of building practices
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Cohabitation Strategies: Challenging Neoliberal Urbanization Between Crises
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Cohabitation Strategies : Challenging Neoliberal Urbanization Between Crises
Cohabitation Strategies: Challenging Neoliberal Urbanization Between Crisis presents 12 years of urban theories, projects, and interventions developed by Cohabitation Strategies, a Rotterdam- and New York City-based non-profit cooperative committed to radical socio-spatial research, design, and development. Centering on the development of new action-research methodologies, neighbourhood-based initiatives, and the facilitation of community-driven transformative interventions, the book offers critical insights and progressive visions on the dramatic impact that neoliberal spatial-restructuring had in communities of colour and low-income neighbourhoods in the Netherlands, Italy, France, Canada, and the United States. The book proposes new transdisciplinary methodologies, practices, tools, and strategies to challenge for-profit-driven urban development and the advancement of the right to the city.
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A New Analysis of Urbanization in China
The urbanization rate in China soared from 29.4% in 1996 to 52.6% in 2012 following an upsurge in the construction of development zones, new urban districts and international metropolises. China’s urbanization is one of the two major events that will affect the development of human society in the 21st century, according to Joseph Stiglitz, the acclaimed American Nobel prize-winning economist, the other being the next round of the US-led new technological revolution. Urbanization, an inexorable trend of economic and social development, can act as a benchmark to gauge the economic and societal progress of a country.Since the founding of the PRC, and especially since the reform and opening-up process was launched in 1978, China has witnessed a marked upward spike in the size of its urban population.This trend has accelerated in recent decades, with small towns and cities emerging in large numbers.The authors of this textbook explore the evolution of the economy, society, ecology and culture associated with urbanization, to reveal the distinctive characteristics of urbanization in contemporary China.They examine the changes taking place in towns and cities since the start of reform and opening up, and investigate how the Chinese government has been working to establish an institutional framework to guarantee that urbanization develops in a sustainable way.
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Human Factors in Engineering : Manufacturing Systems, Automation, and Interactions
This book addresses aspects of human factors in engineering and provides a detailed discussion of novel approaches, systems engineering tools, artificial cognitive systems, and intelligent technologies and automation.It presents applications in diverse areas, including digital manufacturing, transportation, infrastructure development, and cybersecurity. This book:• Merges the engineering perspective with the human factors and social dimension of computing and artificial intelligence–based technologies. • Covers technological development of human factors engineering and the human dimension in applications across all areas of modern society. • Relates to human behavior in the context of technology and systems interactions. • Discusses the design and the appropriation of 3D printing techniques in the management of an innovative product system. • Presents systems engineering tools, user experience methodologies, artificial cognitive systems, intelligent technologies, and automation. The text is for students, professionals, and researchers in the fields of ergonomics, human factors, industrial engineering, and manufacturing engineering.
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Online Urbanization : Online Services in China’s Rural Transformation
This book highlights the new urban–rural relationship that has emerged under the influence of e-commerce in China.In this regard, it presents case studies on the Suichang rural e-commerce model and Alibaba’s rural strategy, together with analyses of online service in China.Furthermore, by means of a brief review of the urban–rural relationship throughout China’s history, and of academic literature on the study of space, it explains the special logic of urbanization in China.As such, the book makes a valuable contribution to the body of literature on the space of flows and grassrooting, aspects that are essential to appreciating the complexity of the new urban–rural relationship in underdeveloped areas (including developing countries and underdeveloped areas in developed countries) in the ongoing information era.
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Low-carbon City and New-type Urbanization : Proceedings of Chinese Low-carbon City Development International Conference
In the face of increasingly serious resource and environmental challenges, the world has already accepted low-carbon development as the main way forward for future city construction.Chinese cities have encountered many problems during their development, including land constraints, energy shortages, traffic congestion and air pollution.For this reason, the national meeting of the Central Work Conference on Urbanization made the strategic decision to take a new approach to urbanization and indicated that in future the key features of urbanization in China will be low-carbon development and harmony between the environment and resources.This book discusses the "low-carbon city" as the new pattern of Chinese urbanization.This represents a major change and takes "intensive land use,” “intelligent,” “green” and “low carbon" as its key words.Low carbon will become an important future development direction for Chinese urbanization development. In the twenty-first Century in response to the global climate change, countries have started a wave of low-carbon city construction.But in China, there are still many disputes and misunderstandings surrounding the issue.Due to a lack of research, low-carbon city construction in China is still in the early stages, and while there have been successes, there have also been failures.There are complex and diverse challenges in applying low-carbon development methods in the context of today’s Chinese cities.The construction of low-carbon cities requires efficient government, the technological innovation of enterprises, and professional scholars, but also efforts on the part of the public to change their daily activities. Based on the above considerations, the collection brings together experts from urban planning and design, clean-energy systems, low-carbon transportation, newtypes of city infrastructure and smart cities etc., in the hope of forming some solutions for Chinese low-carbon city development.
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