TY - BOOK AU - Al,Stefan TI - Villages in the city: a guide to South China's informal settlements. SN - 9780824847562 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - HT384 C62 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Hong Kong, Honolulu PB - Hong Kong University Press, University of Hawaii Press KW - Urbanization KW - China KW - Pearl River Delta KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Cities and towns N1 - Index; Bibliography; A Guide to South China ‘ s Informal Settlements -- Edited by : Stefan AI -- Contributing editors : Paul Chu Hoi Shan , Claudia Juhre , Ivan Valin , Casey Wang -- Contents : -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ix -- INTRODUCTION -- Villages in the City : A Guide to China ' s Informal Settlements STEFAN AL 1 -- ESSAYS -- The City in between the Villages , MARCO CENZATTI 9 -- The Beginning of the End : Planning the Destruction of Guangzhou ' s Urban Villages , MARGARET CRAWFORD and JIONG WU 19 -- City – in – the – Village : Huanggang and China ' s Urban Renewal , NICK R . SMITH 29 -- A Village by the Special Economic Zone : The Dafen Paradigm of China ' s Urbanization JIANG JUN 42 -- Village – in – the - City as a Sustainable Form of Social Housing Communities for China : A Tale of Four Villages in Shenzhen , LAURENCE LIAUW 47 -- URBANIZATION -- The Big Picture : Visualizing Urban Villages 63 -- Village Portraits 64 -- Rapid Urbanization and the Rise and Decline of Urban Villages 67 -- Uneven Urbanization in the Pearl River Delta 68 -- SHENZHEN -- Xiasha Village 70 -- Dafen Village 80 -- Gangxia Village 90 -- POLITICS -- Battle of the Smartest : Shenzhen Municipal Government vs Shenzhen Urban Villagers 100 -- Limited Rights of Floating Population 103 -- DONGGUAN -- Jiekou Village 104 -- Tianjia Village 114 -- URBAN DESIGN -- One Line Skies : Shipai Village 124 -- GUANGZHOU -- Shipai Village 126 -- Wanshengtang Village 136 -- Sanyuanli Village 146 -- ARCHITECTURE -- Flexible Use of Village Buildings 156 -- FOSHAN -- Bitang Village 158 -- Hedang Village 168 -- INTERIOR DESIGN -- How Do the Villagers Cut Up the Housing Units ? 178 -- ZHUHAI -- Poshi Village 180 -- Zuowu Village 190 -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 202 -- CREDITS 203 -- ER -