Contestation and exclusion in Asian urban spaces under the impact of globalization : an introduction / Jonathan Rigg and Tai-Chee Wong -- International and intra-national migrations : human mobility in Pacific Asian cities in the globalization age / Tai-Chee Wong -- The migrant as a nexus of...

The paradoxes of rural-urban inequality in contemporary China / Martin King Whyte -- Small-town China : a historical perspective on rural-urban relations / Hanchao Lu -- Rural migrant workers and China's differential citizenship : a comparative institutional analysis / Wu Jieh-min -- How large...

This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding potentially negative impacts of knowledge based city policies. The authors provide a critical...

Verlagsinfo: Sozialräume stehen im Mittelpunkt sozialpolitischer, stadtplanerischer, stadtsoziologischer, sozialgeographischer und sozialpädagogischer Debatten. Das "Handbuch Sozialraum" durchquert diese unterschiedlichen disziplinären Diskursstränge und arbeitet die Perspektiven auf die...