The City as Laboratory and the Urban-Rural Divide
Abstract
This paper focuses on the revival of private property and its limits in urban China. It explores the emergence of urban property markets; urban property-holding in relation to the complexity of urban governance; “minor property rights apartments” that form a de facto real estate market and cross over the urban-rural divide; the “grey areas” of blurring legal and administrative boundaries in modern China; and recent changes to the rural land system and the rural-urban divide. The conclusion flags the theme of the city as laboratory with regard to the blurring legal and governmental urban-rural distinction.
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Electronic reference
Tim Murphy and Ting Xu, « The City as Laboratory and the Urban-Rural Divide », China perspectives [Online], 2008/4 | 2008, Online since 01 December 2011, connection on 25 May 2013. URL : http://chinaperspectives.revues.org/4733
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