Asian Geographer Volume 17 Issue 1-2

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EDITORIAL BOARD 1996–98

1998 Asian Geographer

doi:10.1080/10225706.1998.9684030

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Marketization of Land and Housing in Socialist China: Introduction

WONG, Koon-kwai; ZHAO, Simon X.B.

1998 Asian Geographer

doi:10.1080/10225706.1998.9684031

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China's Urban Land Management Reforms in the Context of Gradualist Economic Transformation

ZHU, Jieming

1998 Asian Geographer

doi:10.1080/10225706.1998.9684032

Abstract The Chinese urban land management reforms are implemented within the framework of the general economic reforms which are gradualist in nature. Thus, the urban land reforms are carried out step by step towards an establishment of the land market. Gradualism is developed in association...

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Urban Planning and Spatial Development in a Reforming Socialist City: The Case of Guangzhou

XU, Jiang

1998 Asian Geographer

doi:10.1080/10225706.1998.9684033

Abstract Urban planning has played a very important role in shaping the spatial changes in Guangzhou. Previously, planning used to serve industrial development aimed at transforming Guangzhou from a “consumer city” into a “socialist production city”. After the economic reform, comprehensive...

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Continuity, Integration and Diversity: Sustainable Urban Design Concepts for Redeveloping

LU, Leslie; JIA, Beisi

1998 Asian Geographer

doi:10.1080/10225706.1998.9684034

Abstract The paper presented in four sections, proposes the application of the urban design concepts of continuity, integration and diversity as strategic tools for urban redevelopment, using Dongjiadu, a historic district in the City of Shanghai as a case for study. Section one argues for the...

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Urban Housing Reform in China: A Review of Welfare Housing Development in Beijing (1987–1997)

WONG, Francis K.W.; HUI, Eddie C.M.; KONG, Lucy S.P.; HOWES, Rodney

1998 Asian Geographer

doi:10.1080/10225706.1998.9684035

Abstract Deng Xiao-ping put forth the idea of “Marketization” of housing in China in 1980. Since then, the mechanism of “market” has been implicitly accepted by Socialist China. This has resulted in many changes in the urban housing system in which home purchase is now encouraged. This paper...

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Market Segmentation and Consumer Characteristics of Commodity Housing in Guangzhou: An Analysis of Household Survey Data

LI, Si-ming; TANG, Yin-ha

1998 Asian Geographer

doi:10.1080/10225706.1998.9684036

Abstract The housing reform in China aims at commodification and privatization of urban housing. Using data from a household survey conducted in Guangzhou, the present paper examines the relationship between a household's socio-economic characteristics and the source of housing provision, and...

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The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Housing Reform Policies in the Pearl River Delta

CHOW, Chun-shing

1998 Asian Geographer

doi:10.1080/10225706.1998.9684037

Abstract With few exceptions, public policies are postulated with good intentions. Nevertheless, when well justified policies are implemented, they of ten result in unintended consequences which might deviate from, or even contradict, what they have originally been designed to achieve. Recent...

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Assignments of Agricultural Land Use Rights to Households in Tongan County, Fujian, China

LI, Jianhe; VANDERMEER, Canute

1998 Asian Geographer

doi:10.1080/10225706.1998.9684038

Abstract In the household responsibility system of agricultural production, villager group members have rights to use farmland, and leaders of villager groups assign farmland to households. Because the qualities of a group? land differ from place to place, each household receives use rights to...

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Highway Network Connectivity, Traffic Flow Pattern, and Economic Development of China's Hainan Island

LEE, Yuk

1998 Asian Geographer

doi:10.1080/10225706.1998.9684039

Abstract A four-stage economic development plan was formulated in 1987 to drive Hainan's economy to the level of ‘middle-level’ developed nations by 2007. This study is an analysis of Hainan's highway network, the chief mode of transportation of the Island's bus passengers and freight movement....

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