Polycentric development practice in master planning: the case of China

Cheng, Hui; Shaw, David

doi:10.1080/13563475.2017.1361318

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“…Polycentricity has gradually become a normative goal in Chinese planning (Cheng and Shaw, ). However, recent research fails to account for the underlying logic of urban planning and the Chinese‐specific context.…”

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“…Therefore, Tianjin has a significantly larger territory and population than large cities in Western countries (see Figure ). Traditional cities, counties and subcentres with their hinterlands together make up the Tianjin ‘city‐region’, offering multiple spatial scopes through which development can be regulated (Cheng and Shaw, ). The socioeconomic dynamics of Tianjin, which have led to dramatic urbanization, economic growth and spatial reconfiguration since the 1980s, also affect the governance and implementation of polycentricity (Schmitt, ).…”

Section: Discourses Of Polycentricity In the Tianjin Master Plans Sinmentioning

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“…Recent typical cases are the designation of a secondary administrative district at Tongzhou and the establishment of Xiong'an New Area in Hebei Province, adjacent to Beijing. Although the origin and application of polycentric ideas in planning in China (Cheng and Shaw, ) has received some attention, there is little insight into how the prominent discourse about polycentric development has been constructed and reformulated as part of master planning.…”

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The (Re)Making of Polycentricity in China's Planning Discourse: The Case of Tianjin

Wang¹,

Wang²,

Kintrea³

2020

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Polycentricity is promoted as an ideal urban form to achieve sustainable and balanced development, and it has been widely adopted by planners in China, especially in large cities. However, the rhetoric about polycentricity has rarely been interrogated in planning research in terms of scales, contextuality, power and rationality. To fill this gap, we carried out a Foucauldian discourse analysis in our research to interpret the nature of polycentric practice in City Master Plans, using Tianjin as a case study. Through an analysis of how the discourse of polycentricity is being deployed in planning documents, we develop two principal arguments in this article. First, the conceptual substance of polycentricity evolved alongside the urban transition process in China, and its discursive practice involved multiple scales and spatial elements. Secondly, rather than being mere technocratic practice, the production and legitimation of distinct discourses of polycentricity is an articulation of multi‐scalar power involving various stakeholders, which is disguised and justified by the planning profession.

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2020

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“…In particular, policy makers and urban planners in Europe have sought to promote the polycentric urban spatial structure as an urban policy agenda in the European Spatial Development Perspective [4]. Nowadays, this concept has attracted attention from East Asian countries, especially China, where several new town projects are being planned as the world-class 'polycentric regions' [5][6][7].…”

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Does the Polycentric Urban Region Contribute to Economic Performance? The Case of Korea

Kwon

Seo

2018

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This study aims to explore whether and to what extent two types of polycentricity, morphological and functional, affect the level of urban economic performance. In the analysis, it is found that morphological polycentricity is positively associated with the level of labor productivity whereas functional polycentricity is negatively related to it. In the context of the Korean urban system, characterized by the domination of a few cities and high levels of population density, regions which are more morphologically polycentric and functionally monocentric are likely to have higher labor productivity. These results reflect the processes of agglomeration economies and their impact on urban dynamics. This study contributes to the debates on the impacts of polycentricity on economic performance by examining this relationship in the East Asian context, not in Europe or America, and by distinguishing between effects of two types of polycentricity.

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“…The early attempt to apply polycentricity started in several mega cities (e.g., Beijing and Shanghai) and aimed to overcome the increasing rates of urban diseases in the city centers. Since then polycentric development has been adopted by other large and mega cities in their spatial development strategies [42,43]. On an intra-urban level, the practice was guided by so-called urban master planning, which mainly includes two levels of planning: the city region and the metropolitan area.…”

Section: Urban Polycentric Planning Practices In China's Citiesmentioning

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Polycentric Development and the Role of Urban Polycentric Planning in China’s Mega Cities: An Examination of Beijing’s Metropolitan Area

Liu

2018

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An emerging polycentric spatial structure in China's mega cities has been confirmed in the literature, but few studies have addressed the linkage between the change in spatial structure and urban development policies. Using Beijing as a case study, this paper examines the role of urban polycentric planning in the polycentric evolution process from a morphological perspective. We observed that urban polycentric planning significantly promoted the emergence of a polycentric urban form in Beijing's metropolitan area from 2001 to 2010. Firstly, most of the planned subcenters were identified as real employment subcenters by a relative threshold method in 2001 and 2010 and comprised the majority of the employment subcenters. Secondly, the planned subcenters significantly increased their employment share and influence on employment and population distribution from 2001 to 2010, and their performances referring to these aspects were much better than the unplanned subcenters. Thus, our findings provide evidence that changes in urban spatial structure can be strongly affected by urban development policies, although it is determined by market forces in theory.

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Polycentric development practice in master planning: the case of China

Cited by 51 publications

References 23 publications

The (Re)Making of Polycentricity in China's Planning Discourse: The Case of Tianjin

The (Re)Making of Polycentricity in China's Planning Discourse: The Case of Tianjin

Does the Polycentric Urban Region Contribute to Economic Performance? The Case of Korea

Polycentric Development and the Role of Urban Polycentric Planning in China’s Mega Cities: An Examination of Beijing’s Metropolitan Area

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