Ray Forrest & Julie Ren 
The City in China [EPUB ebook] 
New Perspectives on Contemporary Urbanism

In 1915 Robert Park penned his seminal paper “The City: Suggestions for the investigation of human behaviour in the city environment”. This essay provided an agenda for the Chicago School of Urban Sociology, which formed the basis of urban research for decades. Given that China’s urban centres now occupy the spotlight that once belonged to American cities, Park’s essay is a platform and point of departure for this volume, which gathers together reflections from a broad range of urban China specialists to consider Park’s (ir)relevance today – for cities in China, for questions about the social life of the city and for urban research more generally. Essential for a broad range of urban studies scholars, this book is an invaluable teaching resource and a useful tool for policy-makers and planners.

About the author

Ray Forrest (1951-2020) was Research Professor in Cities and Social Change and Director of the Centre for Social Policy and Social Change at Lingnan University, Hong Kong . He was also Emeritus Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Bristol. Julie Ren is Research Faculty, Department of Geography, Humboldt University of Berlin. Bart Wissink is Associate Professor in Urban Studies and Urban Policy at the Department of Public Policy at City University of Hong Kong.