Redevelopment of urban village in China – A step towards an effective urban policy? A case study of Liede village in Guangzhou

Li, Ling Hin; Lin, Jie; Li, Xin; Wu, Fan

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2014.03.009

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“…The Liede Village redevelopment has been widely reported as a showcase of urban village regeneration in Guangzhou [13]. It is also widely researched on its success factors because of the win-win outcomes, as can be seen in the drastic change before (Figure 1a) and after ( Figure 1b) the regeneration (Figure 1).…”

Section: Liede Village: the Case Of Win-win Outcomesmentioning

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“…The formation of urban villages in China has been well-documented [13,46,47], and urban villages are the rural collective's land, or technically the remainder of the rural collective's land after other rural land surrounding the "village" site has already been requisitioned and converted into state land for urban development purposes. The village will not have been converted for various reasons; usually, it is due to a compensation problem [13]. Hence, these pockets of "village" sites are engulfed by properly converted urban land, making it difficult for them to be used for agricultural purposes.…”

Section: Characteristics Of Urban Villages In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Based on various studies examining urban villages in China, we can summarise that such an urban phenomenon has the following characteristics [13,27,[46][47][48][49]:…”

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“…Urban encroachment has led to a rapid shrinkage of rural territory as rural-urban migration increases due to better job opportunities and living standards in the urban cities [13]. In this process, China has witnessed the emergence of a unique urban form known as an urban village.…”

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Social Sustainability and Redevelopment of Urban Villages in China: A Case Study of Guangzhou

Han

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Rapid economic development in China has generated substantial demand for urban land for development, resulting in an unprecedented urbanization process. The expansion of urbanized cities has started to engulf rural areas, making the urban-rural boundary less and less conspicuous in China. Urban encroachment has led to a rapid shrinkage of the rural territory as the rural-urban migration has increased due to better job opportunities and living standards in the urban cities. Urban villages, governed by a rural property rights mechanism, have started to emerge sporadically within urbanised areas. Various approaches, such as state-led, developer-led, or collective-led approaches, to redevelop these urban villages have been adopted with varying degrees of success. This paper uses a case-study framework to analyse the state-market interplay in two very different urban village redevelopment cases in Guangzhou. By an in-depth comparative analysis of the two regeneration cases in Guangzhou, which started within close proximity in terms of geographical location and timing, we are able to shed light on how completely different outcomes may result from different forms of state-market interplay. It is found that a neoliberal policy approach that aims at coordinating state resources with market forces rather than discarding the state's role provides a more satisfactory outcome in urban village redevelopment when there are a lot of stakeholders involved each with different agendas. The state maintains a good balance of the power-play in the process with a clear and supportive policy and regulatory guidance, leaving the market to function more effectively and satisfactorily in effectuating capital flow for the project, which helps to achieve sustainable outcomes.

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Section: Liede Village: the Case Of Win-win Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Characteristics Of Urban Villages In Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Based on various studies examining urban villages in China, we can summarise that such an urban phenomenon has the following characteristics [13,27,[46][47][48][49]:…”

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“…Consequently, high speed industrialization and urbanization has resulted in loss of agricultural land [51,54]. This sowed the seeds for the problem of urban villages [21]. For the development of urban economy, governments try to attract investment and construct various industrial parks, along with commercial and residential living facilities supporting, which lead to urban continuing to expand to rural areas, until surround the countryside, formatting the phenomenon in China urban villages.…”

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Strategies for Regeneration of Urban Villages in Hometown of Oversea-Chinese

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2017

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Abstract:Hometown of Oversea-Chinese is a special phenomenon in the history of Chinese near-modern development, mainly in the east and south coast of China. At the beginning of last century, a large number of coastal residents moved overseas for living. After decades of efforts, they invested back hometown to build houses. These residence layouts consist both local traditional culture and foreign features, forming a special landscape. In recent years, economic globalization has promoted rapid urbanization, which leads massive population flowing from rural to urban areas. Cities eroded the countryside field and evacuated the rural labor force, leading to a large number of abandoned deteriorated urban villages, including the hometown of Oversea-Chinese. This paper focuses on the regeneration of urban villages in hometown of Oversea-Chinese. With the influence of global industrialization and rapid urbanization in recent decades in China, a large number of Oversea-Chinese residence groups have become empty and decayed urban villages gradually. However, they are different from urban villages in other parts of China, as they have unique cultural features and historical value, therefore research on the regeneration of this type of urban villages not only contribute to local economic development but also is closely related to the hot topic of how to maintain cultural differences under the process of globalization. We surveyed their formation process, historical and cultural characteristics and put forward some strategies of regeneration from the three aspects of society, economy and environment: explore history culture to strengthen the bond with Oversea-Chinese, develop cultural and creative industries and appropriate tourism to promote economic activities and improve the environment by government-led planning.

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Shifts in governance modes and explanatory factors in the NIMBY: Findings from the X waste incineration plant in Shenzhen, China

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With increasing numbers of environmental conflicts in recent years, Chinese local governments are changing their modes of governance with the aim of addressing these conflicts satisfactorily. Through a case study, we identified shifts in modes of governance from hierarchical to network and from market to hybrid (characterized by a combination of market and hierarchical) in three arenas. Our findings confirm that initiating actors, stakeholder involvement types, rules of interaction, and implementation strategies are useful indicators of shifts in governance modes. Media, protests and policy entrepreneurs in different arenas are important factors in the shift from hierarchical to network governance, while policy entrepreneurs and higher‐level government intervention are crucial factors in the shift from market to a hybrid governance mode. Policy entrepreneurs play an important role in all three arenas. As for theoretical contribution, our research has provided the evidence for non‐hierarchical governance practices in the NIMBY in China. In the future, local governments in China may learn to consider proper governance mode shifts to deal with the NIMBY conflicts in infrastructure planning and construction.

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Redevelopment of urban village in China – A step towards an effective urban policy? A case study of Liede village in Guangzhou

Cited by 129 publications

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Social Sustainability and Redevelopment of Urban Villages in China: A Case Study of Guangzhou

Social Sustainability and Redevelopment of Urban Villages in China: A Case Study of Guangzhou

Strategies for Regeneration of Urban Villages in Hometown of Oversea-Chinese

Shifts in governance modes and explanatory factors in the NIMBY: Findings from the X waste incineration plant in Shenzhen, China

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