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Cities trade with suburbs - slums for luxury housing
Jeffrey Hill | Wed, Mar 19th, 2008 | Category: Report | Tags: jeffrey hill, crime, downtown, building, suburbs, foreclosure, growth, mortgage, foreclosures, metro, atlantic, luxury, christopher leinberger, populuxe, migration, the new slum | 1
Christopher Leinberger explores “The Next Slum” in this thought-provoking article on Atlantic.com
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A Floating City of Peasants: The Great Migration in Contemporary China
Matt Stroud | Thu, Dec 13th, 2007 | Category: Reviews | Tags: china, migration, william j. evitts, peasants, reviews, chinese immigrants, contemporary china | 0
Just Enough for the City: the Great Chinese Migration
By William J. EvittsReview: A Floating City of Peasants: The Great Migration in Contemporary China. Van Luyn, Floris-Jan, translated from the Dutch by Jeannette K. Ringold (New York: The New Press, 2007).
A Floating City of Peasants begins and ends with numbers—the astonishing (and astonishingly unremarked) statistical outpouring of peasants leaving the Chinese countryside. The U.N. calculated that 200 million Chinese will…
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