Using an interdisciplinary approach, the book analyses how living in the city transforms and changes rural migrant households, and explores the social lives and micro economies of migrant neighbourhoods. It goes on to discuss changing housing and social conditions and spatial changes in the urban villages of major Chinese cities, as well as looking into transient urbanism and examining the consequences of redevelopment and upgrading of the ‘villages in the city’; in particular, the planning, regeneration, politics of development, and socio-economic implications of these immense social, economic and physical upheavals.
Fulong Wu is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London, UK.
Fangzhu Zhang
is Lecturer in China Planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK.Chris Webster
is Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong and Senior Departmental Fellow, Cambridge University Department of Land Economy, UK.