Gated Communities in China

副标题: Class, Privilege and the Moral Politics of the Good Life

ISBN: 9780203876206

出版社: Routledge

出版年: 2009-05

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

Moving beyongd convetianal accounts of gated communities and housing segregation, this book interrogates the moral politics of urban place-making in China's commodity housing enclaves. Drawing on fieldwork and survey conducted in Shanghai, Pow critically demonstrates how gated communities are bound up in the cultural reproduction of middle-class landscape that is entrenched in the politics of the good life - defined in terms of a highly segregated landscape secured and maintained through the territorialization of privilege, lifestyle and private proverty...