• Provides the reader a nuanced understanding of rural France that goes beyond the static, picture postcard vision of the French countryside. • Brings together memoirs, television, magazines, film, and photographic sources. • Features insert of color photography of the French countryside. At the close of the twentieth century, even as globalization spurred the growth of megacit...(展开全部)

Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China. Cities envelop the countryside, not only geographically and demographically but also in terms of cultural impact. Robin Visser illuminates the cultural dynamics of three decades of radical urban dev...(展开全部)

The gap between those living in the city and those in the countryside remains one of China's most intractable problems. As this powerful work of grassroots history argues, the origins of China's rural-urban divide can be traced back to the Mao Zedong era. While Mao pledged to remove the gap between the city worker and the peasant, his revolutionary policies misfired and ended u...(展开全部)

Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China. Cities envelop the countryside, not only geographically and demographically but also in terms of cultural impact. Robin Visser illuminates the cultural dynamics of three decades of radical urban dev...(展开全部)

The Bulldozer in the Countryside is the first scholarly history of efforts to reduce the environmental costs of suburban development in the United States. The book offers a new account of two of the most important historical events in the period since World War II--the mass migration to the suburbs and the rise of the environmental movement. This work offers a valuable historic...(展开全部)

The concern today about suburban sprawl is not new. In the decades after World War II, the spread of tract-house construction changed the nature of millions of acres of land, and a variety of Americans began to protest against the environmental costs of suburban development. By the mid-1960s, indeed, many of the critics were attempting to institutionalize an urban land ethic. T...(展开全部)

苏力，北京大学法学院教授。祖籍江苏，生于1955年愚人节。少年从军，又当过工人。1978年恢复高考后，复转军人进了法学院。1984年读硕士期间赴美留学，获硕士和博士学位。1992年回北大任教。《法治及其本土资源》《送法下乡》《道路通向城市》《法律与文学》等独著，《法理学问题》《超越法律》《无需法律的秩序》等译著以及论文、书评百余篇。

苏力，北京大学法学院教授。祖籍江苏，生于1955年愚人节。少年从军，又当过工人。1978年恢复高考后，复转军人进了法学院。1984年读硕士期间赴美留学，获硕士和博士学位。1992年回北大任教。《法治及其本土资源》《送法下乡》《道路通向城市》《法律与文学》等独著，《法理学问题》《超越法律》《无需法律的秩序》等译著以及论文、书评百余篇。