Gated communities in China class, privilege and the moral politics of the good life
Choon-Piew, Pow 1974-
Gated communities in China class, privilege and the moral politics of the good life - London Routledge 2009 - 214p. ill., maps, plans ; 25 cm. - Routledge Pacific Rim geographies ; 7 . - Routledge Pacific Rim geographies (2007) ; 7. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: gated communities and the lure of the good life -- Making middle-class spaces: privilege, territoriality and the moral geographies of exclusion -- Urban reform, the new middle-class and the emergence of gated communities in Shanghai -- Imagineering suburbia: contested representations of the Chinese dream home -- Seeking privacy and seclusion: private property, individualism and neoliberal subjectivities -- Maintaining order and civility: purified spaces and the paradox of gated living -- Beyond the gates: a geographical-moral critique.
9780415478106
2008052500
Gated communities--China--Shanghai.
Middle class--China--Shanghai.
HT169.59.C6 / C45 2009
307.770951 / CH-G
Gated communities in China class, privilege and the moral politics of the good life - London Routledge 2009 - 214p. ill., maps, plans ; 25 cm. - Routledge Pacific Rim geographies ; 7 . - Routledge Pacific Rim geographies (2007) ; 7. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: gated communities and the lure of the good life -- Making middle-class spaces: privilege, territoriality and the moral geographies of exclusion -- Urban reform, the new middle-class and the emergence of gated communities in Shanghai -- Imagineering suburbia: contested representations of the Chinese dream home -- Seeking privacy and seclusion: private property, individualism and neoliberal subjectivities -- Maintaining order and civility: purified spaces and the paradox of gated living -- Beyond the gates: a geographical-moral critique.
9780415478106
2008052500
Gated communities--China--Shanghai.
Middle class--China--Shanghai.
HT169.59.C6 / C45 2009
307.770951 / CH-G