Semi-periphery and borderland integration: Singapore and Hong Kong experiences

Ho, Kin‐Yip; So, Alvin Y.

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“…The Open Door Policy of China provides a breathing space for the continual survival of these industries. Between 1980 and1993 Ho and So, 1997). Economic integration between Hong Kong and the PRD is expected to intensify since Hong Kong became a Special Administrative Region in July 1997.…”

Section: Economic Boom and Rapid Industrialization And Urbanizationmentioning

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Urban System Planning in China: A Case Study of the Pearl River Delta

Tang

1999

Urban Geography

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This paper argues that before 1978, the Chinese state, a "police state" in the Foucauldian concept of governmentality, aimed at total administration of the economy and society. Central investments determined local spatial development. Economic reforms and administrative decentralization after 1978 allowed local authorities to pursue their own development, leading to many planning problems. To regain control over spatial development, the state now employs urban system planning to regulate development in city regions. The Pearl River Delta Urban System Plan (PRDUSP) is a case in point. To overcome myopic regional development and environmental issues, the PRDUSP lays out a development strategy in which cities are organized into hierarchies around three metropolitan areas, have different functions, and are connected by development and growth axes. Various measures and policies also are recommended. All these suggest that the Provincial Government of Guangdong is searching for a new way of regional governance. [Key words: urban system planning, Pearl River Delta, China, governmentality, regional governance.] This paper investigates the relationship between urban system planning, the built environment, and the state in China, a subject that has never been investigated or debated seriously (Tang, 1998). Research on urban system planning in China frequently focuses on the ideal urban hierarchy, as seen through the dominant political lens in different periods of time: (1) the perspective of central planning or the "leftist" ideology before the initiation of economic reforms in 1978; and (2) the principle of economic efficiency after 591 has been done on how urban system planning actually is done, not to mention its theoretical basis. Kirkby (1985) summarized the academic debates during the early 1980s on whether large or small cities should be preferred. However, his work is largely descriptive and lacks a spatial perspective. His discussion also is not situated within the context of state governance, which has undergone dramatic changes in the last decade. Solinger (1993) attempted to view the economic reforms from the statist perspective. Nevertheless, as Perry (1994) argued, Solinger relied too much on an unnecessarily rigid state-society dichotomy. Moreover, Solinger's work has little to offer in terms of a better understanding of planning knowledge and practice.In order to understand the relationship between the built environment, urban system planning, and the Chinese state, we have to develop a new perspective. It is in this context that we find Foucault's concept of governmentality (Foucault, 1991;Tang, 1997a) useful. Foucault rejected a perspective concentrating on state institutions. Instead, he focused on the identification of programs and practices of rules in micro-settings. The strategy to understand the practice of the state is to decompose power into two lines of investigation: one includes political rationalities and programs of government, the other emphasizes technologies and techniques of government. T...

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Section: Economic Boom and Rapid Industrialization And Urbanizationmentioning

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Urban System Planning in China: A Case Study of the Pearl River Delta

Tang

1999

Urban Geography

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“…As China became more disposed to maintaining Hong Kong's status quo, it fostered a tacit understanding with Britain: as long as the British did not harm Chinese interests, the Chinese would not interfere with British rule in Hong Kong. The political border had then been consolidated (Ho and So, : 251–2).…”

Section: The Contest Over Hong Kong's Water Supply: 1959–65mentioning

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The Changing Nature of Border, Scale and the Production of Hong Kong's Water Supply System since 1959

Lee

2013

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article investigates the making of Hong Kong's water supply system since 1959. It starts by assessing the perspectives provided by the regime approach and the political ecology literatures. The case of Hong Kong brings in ideas from border studies and draws attention to the changing nature of the border to explain socio-ecological and scaling interactions. The case study maps the border relationship between China and Hong Kong (and Britain), and the political tussle between them over the control of water supply to the city in the late colonial period 1959-78, which resulted in the creation of a localized self-sufficient water supply system in Hong Kong, and the consolidation of Hong Kong's scale as a colonial city-state under British rule. It further explicates the change in the nature of the political border since 1979, and the processes by which Hong Kong abandoned attempts to strengthen its local supply, becoming dependent on supply from the regional Dongjiang water networks, as well as the transformation of its scale to become a subordinate of the larger political unit in subsequent years.

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“…In the years to follow, Goh Chok Tong-then Deputy Prime Minister-proposed the idea of a "growth triangle" to bring together Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia on the basis of a technical, sectoral and regional division of labor (Perry, 1991;Parsonage, 1992;Ho, 1994;Ho and So, 1997). Under this proposal, labor and land constraints in Singapore would impel the relocation of low value-added and labor-intensive production processes to Johor, Malaysia or Riau, Indonesia.…”

Section: Singapore's Regimes Of Accumulationmentioning

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The Evolution of Modern Demography and the Debate on Sustainable Development

Laughlìn

1999

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Semi-periphery and borderland integration: Singapore and Hong Kong experiences

Cited by 39 publications

References 11 publications

Urban System Planning in China: A Case Study of the Pearl River Delta

Urban System Planning in China: A Case Study of the Pearl River Delta

The Changing Nature of Border, Scale and the Production of Hong Kong's Water Supply System since 1959

The Evolution of Modern Demography and the Debate on Sustainable Development

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