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This article illustrates how the material process and practical concerns in building modern streets helped shape forms and logic of governing practices at critical moments of urban transformations.
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This article highlights the significance of the construction process and material effects in shaping governance. It provides an alternative perspective to urban history in China.
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This page is a summary of: Materializing a form of urban governance: when street building intersected with city building in Republican Canton (Guangzhou), China, History and Technology, April 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/07341512.2017.1348440.
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