Governing city-regions in China:
            <i>Theoretical issues and perspectives for regional strategic planning</i>

Xu, Jiang

doi:10.3828/tpr.79.2-3.2

Cited by 91 publications

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“…The overlapping planning functions among governmental departments contribute to the inter-sectoral power struggle. This indicates that institutional arenas for regional governance and city-region planning are quite fragile and in need of urgent revision (Xu 2008). We argue that the governing capacity should be further consolidated in the future development of Nanjing city-region, by establishing a formal and strong regional governance structure such as a joint planning authority or a viable general assembly for regional coordination.…”

Section: The Fragmented Planning Departmentsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Urban networks and governance in city‐region planning: state‐led region building in nanjing city‐region, china

Luo

Shen

Chen

2010

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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During the transition towards a more marketoriented economy and entrepreneurial governance, local authorities have attempted to create new cross-jurisdiction regional entities to enhance their competitiveness through making cityregion plans or regional strategic plans in China. This article analyses the process of region building in China through a case study of Nanjing city-region. We argue that region building is a state-led regional project in China, not a spontaneous process. City-region planning has played a legitimacy-seeking role in the construction of new regions. Based on the discourse provided by the city-region plan, associated city networks are being created as a mechanism for plan implementation and regional coordination. This signals that regional planning is entering the stage of regional institution building. By assessing the capacity of regional institutions, we argue that the newly-emerged regional institutions or urban networks have facilitated regionalization in terms of the increasing involvement of non-state actors, the formation of regional coherence and identity and the enhanced inter-city co-operation. However, it is still difficult to establish effective regional governance due to competing local governments, the arbitrary political leadership and the fragmented planning functions.

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Section: The Fragmented Planning Departmentsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Urban networks and governance in city‐region planning: state‐led region building in nanjing city‐region, china

Luo

Shen

Chen

2010

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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“…Eliding provinciallevel actors is problematic because provincial governments play an important role in urban and regional development, bring distinctive interests to the policy process, and have considerable autonomy in their own right. 4 Some work, like that of Luo and Shen (2008) and Xu (2008), escapes the local-central dichotomy and looks more closely at provincial authorities' efforts to coordinate urban and regional development. To date, however, such research has drawn mainly on the experiences of coastal provinces, where market-oriented institutions and powerful local governments limit the ability of higher-level governments to steer urban development.…”

Section: Limitations Of City-centric Accountsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Forging Greater Xi’an

Jaros

2016

Modern China

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“…Devolution of economic power and responsibilities to municipalities since the 1980s has driven urban governments in the PRD to pursue city-centric accumulation strategies (Xu 2008 ). The lack of intercity coordination results in regional economic inefficiency, manifested as overlapping and excessive supply of infrastructure to the PRD as a whole.…”

Section: Regionalizing Urban Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the PRD, RSPs had been independently prepared by the Guangdong Planning Commission and the Guangdong Construction Commission to reassert the power of the Guangdong government in governing the region (Xu 2008 ). However, from the 2000s onwards, the central state has also actively intervened such process of regional re-formation.…”

Section: Regionalizing Urban Developmentmentioning

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Upscaling in Progress: The Reinvention of Urban Planning as an Apparatus of Environmental Governance in China

Chung

2015

Population Mobility, Urban Planning and Management in China

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Through the lens of scalar politics, this paper examines how the Chinese national state has attempted to reassert its control over environmental governance through urban planning with successive rounds of scalar reconfi guration since the 1990s. Along with utilizing the traditional regulatory hierarchies, it has forced in a green urbanism agenda in local planning regimes through three forms of upscaling, namely, regionalizing urban development, intensifying intercity competition, and fostering global-local alliances. Not all of these attempts can claim immediate success, and the introduction of some has created new headaches to China's urban advancement and environmental protection.

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Governing city-regions in China: Theoretical issues and perspectives for regional strategic planning

Cited by 91 publications

References 28 publications

Urban networks and governance in city‐region planning: state‐led region building in nanjing city‐region, china

Urban networks and governance in city‐region planning: state‐led region building in nanjing city‐region, china

Forging Greater Xi’an

Upscaling in Progress: The Reinvention of Urban Planning as an Apparatus of Environmental Governance in China

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