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Since the late 1970s, China has undergone perhaps the most sweeping process of urbanization ever witnessed. This is typi

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Reinventing the Chinese City
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Richard Hu unpacks recent trends in urban planning and development to explore the making and imagining of the contempora

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SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City proposes a new and invigorating vision of urbanism, architectural desig

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In February 2003, a Chinese physician crossed the border between mainland China and Hong Kong, spreading Severe Acute Re

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Chinese Imperial City Planning is the first synthesis of what is known from textual and archaeological evidence about ev

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In this volume, a group of international scholars examines the history of Singapore as a series of discontinuous and var

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Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how inno

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Yan’an, China was the main organizing site of Chinese communism from 1935 to 1949. As the final destination of the Long

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This book focuses on the migration strategies of Chinese women who travel to Mexico City in search of opportunities and

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Largely ignored for decades, the World Bank increasingly finds itself at the center of an international political maelst

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