Urban Village Redevelopment in Beijing, China New Housing Opportunities for Migrant Workers

The book provides a multi-stage assessment of the changing housing opportunities of migrant workers in the three stages of Beijing’s urban village development (emergence, erasure and preservation). The volume re-theorizes Henry Lefebvre’s notion of the “right to the city” as a largely property-based...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liu, Ran
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer Nature Switzerland 2024, 2024
Edition:1st ed. 2024
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction to Urban Villages and the Enforced Transience of Migrant Workers
  • Part 1. Emerging Urban Village
  • 2. Emerging Urban Village and Legitimacy Debates: A Supply-Side Institutional Analysis
  • 3. Resilience of Housing Supply in Urban Villages for Migrant Groups: A Demand Side Investigation
  • Part 2. Erasing the Urban Village
  • 4. Urban Village Redevelopment in Beijing
  • 5. Urban Village Sprawl after Demolition in Beijing
  • Part 3. Preserving the Urban Village
  • 6. Grassroots in Incremental Village Redevelopment: New Opportunities for Migrants in the Commons
  • 7. Conclusion: Prospects for a Communal but Contested World — New Opportunities for the Urban Village
  • Index