This book offers a new perspective on Chinese urban history by exploring cities as habitable spaces. China; the worldrsquo;s most populous nation; is now its newest urban society; and the pace of this unprecedented historical transformation has increased in recent decades. The contributors to this book conceptualise cities as first providing the necessities of life; and then becoming places in which the quality of life can be improved. They focus on how cities have been made secure during times of instability; how their inhabitants have consumed everything from the simplest of foods to the most expensive luxuries; and how they have been planned as ideal spaces. Drawing examples from across the country; this book offers comparisons between different cities; highlights continuities across time and spacemdash;and in doing so may provide solutions to some of the problems that continue to affect Chinese cities today.
2016-05-16 2016-05-16File Name: B01N9MXPWX
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