Beyond top-down/bottom-up: Village transformation on China's urban edge

Cities

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 209-220

  Smith, Nick R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Ethnography; Peri urbanization; Socio spatiality; Village planning

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; PERIURBANIZATION; POLICY MAKING; SPATIAL PLANNING; TOP-DOWN APPROACH; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY; VILLAGE;

CHONGQING; GUANGZHOU; SUZHOU;

EID: 84952299859     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2014.01.006     Document Type: Article

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