Emerging Chinese Cities: Implications for Global Urban Studies

Wu, Fulong

doi:10.1080/00330124.2015.1099189

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“…This extreme informality is a conscious action to exclude tenants from claiming substantial right in the future (Wu, 2015b). Hence, the study of urban village housing may have a potential contribution to the general study of tenure security (Wu, 2015a).…”

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Housing in Chinese Urban Villages: The Dwellers, Conditions and Tenancy Informality

2016

Housing Studies

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Housing in Chinese Urban Villages: The Dwellers, Conditions and Tenancy Informality

2016

Housing Studies

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“…Chinese urbanization is a case in point. The potential implications of the country's fast-paced urban transformation for UGR have not been entirely ignored (Wu, 2016;Hsing, 2012). However, extant publications seem to have far from exhausted the resulting empirical richness and geographical diversity.…”

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Cities on and off the map: A bibliometric assessment of urban globalisation research

2017

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Growing out of writings on Global (North) cities, urban globalisation research (UGR) has expanded its canon to engage with an increasing diversity of cities and locations. Yet, this broadening has been uneven and controversial in its theoretical horizons and empirical universe. Focusing on the latter, this paper combines bibliometric, demographic, economic and georeferenced data to assess how UGR maps onto internationally documented cities (n: 1692). Our study analyses city-themed publications by city location, demographic size and home-country income (2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014). Drawing on social science publications indexed in English (Scopus database), our results provide grounds for cautious optimism: recent publications offer broader, though still uneven coverage. The moving spatial average of publication counts also implies that the topical centre of published research gravity is shifting away from Euro-America. Yet, UGR lags in its coverage of the urban geographical universe, failing to keep pace with the economic/demographic trends that are resulting in southward/eastward shifts in worldwide urbanisation. Furthermore, while smaller cities and those in lower-income countries are still sidelined, cities in upper-middle income countries exhibit the largest gaps between observed and expected publication values. In our conclusion, we contend that urban bibliometrics could be further mobilised to identify publication foci and lacunae. Applied to cities on and off the map and a broader universe of urban knowledges, bibliometrics could help move contentious debates forward, identifying newer paradigms that may be engaging the world of cities beyond the globalisation umbrella and charting out multiple and complex topical relations across variegated worlds of urbanism.

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“…These trends are most visible in North American and Western European cities, but they are apparent in many other areas of the world as well, including parts of Asia and above all China. To be sure, there is currently much debate about the validity of cross-cultural referencing in urban studies, and, in a recent paper, Wu (2016) has correctly pointed out that the shape and form of China's cities have many unique features that reflect the country's very distinctive institutional and political character (see also, Roy 2009). Contrariwise, and in purely formal terms, China's cities are evidently coming to display at least some of the broad developmental outcomes described in this paper, such as aestheticized land-use intensification, gentrification, and post-suburban growth (See, e.g., He, 2010;Lin and Zhang, 2017;Liu et al, 2018;Wu and Phelps, 2011;Zacharias and Yang 2016).…”

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Land Redevelopment and the Built Environment in Third-Wave Cities: Review and Synthesis

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Metropolitan Circles Development and the Future of Urbanization

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I seek to synthesize several different approaches to issues of urban land redevelopment and the built environment. The essay focuses on developments in the third and current historical wave of capitalist development. I describe the economic logic of land-use change with reference to both commercial and residential property. This logic has become intimately intertwined with global finance and this state of affairs has introduced new elements of fluidity and risk into the built environment. Issues of urban policy and the role of municipal authorities in shaping urban land markets are then considered. I describe how local government agencies increasingly pursue development projects in complex partnerships with representatives of the real-estate industry. In the second half of the paper, the overall argument is recast by reference to three important trends in regard to landredevelopment and the built environment in third-wave cities, namely, the economic and architectural renaissance of central business districts, the widespread gentrification of inner-city neighborhoods, and the emergence of a new post-suburban phase of peripheral urban expansion. Urban Land and Property in QuestionThis paper takes the form of an extended essay in which I seek to synthesize several different approaches to questions of land redevelopment and the built environment in contemporary cities. My objective is to bring these approaches into juxtaposition with one another so as to shed fresh light on the ways in which they operate, their relations to the functional structure of the city, and how they are currently reshaping patterns of urban development.A complex scientific and political question about the valuation, appropriation, and use of urban land and property emerges endemically within cities in capitalist society (Roweis and Scott, 1978). The substance of this question can be discerned within the phenomenon of the urban land nexus conceived as a mass of functionally interdependent assets such as factories, offices, houses, shopping facilities, public buildings, infrastructures, and so on, arranged in conjoint spatial patterns around a common center of gravity (Scott, 1980;Scott and Storper, 2015). Complex processes of redevelopment, piloted by intermediaries

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Emerging Chinese Cities: Implications for Global Urban Studies

Cited by 99 publications

References 58 publications

Housing in Chinese Urban Villages: The Dwellers, Conditions and Tenancy Informality

Housing in Chinese Urban Villages: The Dwellers, Conditions and Tenancy Informality

Cities on and off the map: A bibliometric assessment of urban globalisation research

Land Redevelopment and the Built Environment in Third-Wave Cities: Review and Synthesis

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