Tom Miller is managing editor of the China Economic Quarterly, published by research company GK Dragonomics, and a former Beijing correspondent of the South China Morning Post. Tom has a degree in English from Oxford and an MA in Chinese Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. After teaching for a year at Shanghai University, he studied Chinese at Beijing Language and Culture University and at China's Central Academy of Drama. Resident in China for more than a decade, Tom lives in Beijing with his wife and two children. This is his first book.
By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people - one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban billion lead? And what will China's cities be like?
Over the past thirty years, China's urban population expanded by 500 million people, and is on track to swell by a further 300 million by 2030. Hundreds of millions of these new urban residents are rural migrants, who lead second-class lives without access to urban benefits. Even those lucky citizens who live in modern tower blocks must put up with clogged roads, polluted skies and cityscapes of unremitting ugliness. The rapid expansion of urban China is astonishing, but new policies are urgently needed to create healthier cities.
Combining on-the-ground reportage and up-to-date research, this pivotal book explains why China has failed to reap many of the economic and social benefits of urbanization, and suggests how these problems can be resolved. If its leaders get urbanization right, China will surpass the United States and cement its position as the world's largest economy. But if they get it wrong, China could spend the next twenty years languishing in middle-income torpor, its cities pockmarked by giant slums.
现今好像很流行外国人看中国这样的题材,当然这是好事,至少表明我们愿意接受批评和建议。作者是记者,与《江城》的作者何伟选择以小城居民为切入点不同的是,米勒选择了宏观的视角,从政策层面去理解中国的城镇化。城镇化无疑是趋势。如何高效平稳落地。是举国关注和亟...
評分作者是个久居中国的老外,他来评述分析中国城市化问题,本身就很有看头。读罢全书,作者对中国确实有相当程度的了解,至少在城市化和普通老百姓生活上,他是做了大量调查的,所以必担心“不接地气”。 全书总体上是对中国城市化进程持乐观态度的,但也流露出了几点担忧:城市化...
評分以本书为线索,引出全球化下的大城市效应的反思,以WH为例: 经济迅猛发展下的浮世绘,大城市都经历过的飞速增长后的回归理性,而WH却是新兴城市的一波,人浮于事,城市化改变了生态平衡,工业化带来了空气、水源、土壤污染,动物为了保存下来不得不变异,城市环境恶化,传染病...
評分2011年底,我在游学七年后回到北京,期待过上安居乐业的生活。然而,我却在随后三年里五次搬家,并经历了三件与房产有关的大事。一是大舅一家在陕西县城的田地遭当地政府低价强征。年届七十的大舅率众抗争,被关进看守所,他只好签字卖地。二是我所在的北京师范大学在...
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鄂爾多斯什麼的不可能是鬼城
评分很可以看,挺好的。
评分流暢的敘事風格
评分地票製度,城市消費者的轉變。語言平實,消失的“我”。
评分讀一個中國通的老外寫的中國,寫中國的城市化,總是感覺比看國內的新聞更加貼近現實,更入木三分。
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