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Maturing Megacities: The Pearl River Delta in Progressive Transformation

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This edited volume covers the multiple changes concerning urban governance in the course of the progressive transformation of the Pearl River Delta mega-urban region in China. Looking at the megacities Guangzhou and Shenzhen, it analyzes the maturing of socio-economic, political and spatial structures after the first waves of economic globalization, political transformation, and their rapid expansion and urbanization. The initial claim and starting point of the book is the existence of a profound multidimensional shift in the coastal mega-urban region with a major tendency towards urban upgrading, economic restructuring and a clearly observable consolidation of political institutions. For the first ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
300
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
Condition
New
Number of Pages
389
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400766730
SKU
V9789400766730
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Ref
99-1

About Altrock Uwe
Uwe Altrock has degrees in Mathematics as well as Urban & Regional Planning. He is now Professor for Urban Regeneration and Planning at the University of Kassel, Germany. Sonia Schoon has studied Chinese language and culture at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. She obtained an MA in Chinese Studies, European Anthropology and Public Law at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, ... Read more

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