China's Urban Construction Land Development: The State, Market, and Peasantry in Action

by Tao Liu

Book Overview

This book examines the nature and internal dynamics of China's urban construction land (UCL) development, drawing insights from the recently developed theory of regional political ecology. Based on the author's original research, it identifies two different types of UCL development in China, namely top-down, formal development in the legal and regulated domain, and spontaneous and informal, bottom-up development in the semi-legal, poorly regulated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811505675
• ISBN13: 9789811505676
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 474 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"