Shifting land-based coalitions in Shanghai's second hub

Jiang, Yanpeng; Waley, Paul; González, Sara

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2015.11.006

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“…In essence, university towns are mega urban projects, just like other major infrastructure developments, for example transport hubs (Jiang et al, 2016). In this case, university towns are not a product of a postFordist knowledge economy, which sees the dispersal of economic activities in the metropolitan region, but are clustered at specific localities.…”

Section: Governing Suburban Mega Urban Projectsmentioning

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Planning centrality, market instruments: Governing Chinese urban transformation under state entrepreneurialism

2017

Urban Studies

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This article defines the key parameters of 'state entrepreneurialism' as a governance form that combines planning centrality and market instruments, and interprets how these two seemingly contradictory tendencies are made coherent in the political economic structures of post-reform China. Through examining urban regeneration programmes (in particular 'three olds regeneration', sanjiu gaizao), the development of suburban new towns and the reconstruction of the countryside, the article details institutional configurations that make the Chinese case different from a neoliberal growth machine. The contradiction of these tendencies gives room to urban residents and migrants to develop their agencies and their own spaces, and creates informalities in Chinese urban transformation.

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Section: Governing Suburban Mega Urban Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Planning centrality, market instruments: Governing Chinese urban transformation under state entrepreneurialism

2017

Urban Studies

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“…An increasing number of studies have highlighted the dominant role of the state in defining China’s urban governance (Jiang et al ; Li and Chiu ; Shatkin ; Wu ). Drawing on the concept of “state entrepreneurialism”, Wu (:1385) argues that China’s “local development and politics may not be limited to the growth machine and machine politics”.…”

Section: Beyond Physical Displacement: In‐situ Marginalisation In Chinamentioning

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“…In practice, the SODC is the key mechanism to carry out the “land finance” model and to allow the state to finance large infrastructure projects through land value capture (Li and Chiu ). The second type of state organisation takes on quasi‐governmental responsibilities, including the creation of the masterplan and development policies as well as approving planning applications (Jiang et al ; Wu and Phelps ). In recent years, this type of organisation is often called the “management committee” ( guanli weiyuanhui or guanweihui in short).…”

Section: Beyond Physical Displacement: In‐situ Marginalisation In Chinamentioning

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“…In recent years, this type of organisation is often called the “management committee” ( guanli weiyuanhui or guanweihui in short). The key reason why the management committee cannot be considered as a fully fledged government is because in many cases it does not need to take on any responsibilities of governing local residents (Jiang et al ). The responsibility of governing local residents is devolved to the existing district and sub‐district government who are in charge of delivering services such as waste management, policing, social service and health care.…”

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In‐Situ Marginalisation: Social Impact of Chinese Mega‐Projects

Zheng

2019

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This study offers a detailed analysis of an under-researched social problem of in-situ marginalisation and its causes by drawing on the concept of state entrepreneurialism. Our empirical data stem from the Lingang mega project in Shanghai and one of its neighbourhoods named Neighbourhood No.57 where we find that the residents have not been relocated but are instead suffering from declining public services and environmental quality from surrounding industrial developments. The root cause of this problem is the municipal government's prioritisation of its strategic objectives of economic development over the livelihood of local residents. The strategic vision of the municipality has led to mass relocation in its early phases of development but in its later stages leaves many residents waiting for relocation whilst being gradually surrounded by industrial developments. Despite continued residential complaints and petitions, in-situ marginalisation is not resolved due to the institutional arrangement of Lingang, which has centralised planning and financing powers to newly created projectoriented state organisation. Social responsibilities have been relegated to lower-tiered governments in Lingang which have neither planning power nor the financial resources to resolve the problems of residents. By examining the case of Lingang, this paper provides a different analytical framework for explaining the social problems emerging from China's mega urban developments.Abstract: 本文运用 "国家企业家主义" (state entrepreneurialism) 的概念分析 "就地边缘化" (in-situ marginalisation) 的社会问题。案例来自于上海临港新城内的某社区。该社区的居民没有因为重大项目而动迁，但面临公共设施不足，受到由周边工业开发所引起的环境污染问题的影响。就地边缘化问题是由于市政府着重于经济发展战略。为达成战略目标，开发项目的管理制度将经济发展和规划权利转移到侧重负责开发的管委会和国企开发公司，而将社会管理下放给缺乏经济能力的镇政府。由于这样侧重于经济的战略开发和相应的管理模式，这些与重大项目关系不大的社区居民就出现了就地边缘化。通过此案例，本文提供了一个与西方理论不同的框架来诠释中国重大项目开发所导致的社会问题。

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“…Both central and municipal government have supported the project through preferential policies and financial and taxation support. However, it has been the municipal government, and in particular the controversial figure of former Shanghai party secretary and mayor Chen Liangyu, removed from office in 2006, that has been the driving force behind the urban growth coalition that has executed the project (for a detailed account, see Jiang et al, 2015). It has done this through the creation of two special-purpose project-oriented agencies, Hongqiao Business District Management Committee and Shenhong Company, each of which was initially chaired by a Shanghai deputy mayor.…”

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Shanghai swings: The Hongqiao project and competitive urbanism in the Yangtze River Delta

2016

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That cities compete against each other is a cliché of the contemporary neoliberal condition, in which so much focus and energy is expended on a zero-sum-game of trying to outshine imagined rivals. In this paper we examine how this type of competition plays itself out in China, and more specifically in and around Shanghai, in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD). We argue that the competition here, principally for foreign and domestic inward investment, is intense and multi-scalar. It is fuelled in particular by China's nested territorial administrative structure, leading to a situation that eventually involves all scales, from district to central government. We choose therefore the term competitive urbanism to encapsulate these multi-scalar and multi-directional competitive forces. Lying at the centre of this competitive urbanism in the YRD is the giant new Hongqiao project in west Shanghai, second only in expanse and ambition to Pudong. The Shanghai municipal government has promoted this project partly in response to competitive pressures from other cities in the YRD, and partly to swing the dynamic of growth westward within the city and link it better to its hinterland. In this way, Hongqiao is reinforcing and accelerating the competitive urbanism that characterizes China's most prosperous region.

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Shifting land-based coalitions in Shanghai's second hub

Cited by 34 publications

References 32 publications

Planning centrality, market instruments: Governing Chinese urban transformation under state entrepreneurialism

Planning centrality, market instruments: Governing Chinese urban transformation under state entrepreneurialism

In‐Situ Marginalisation: Social Impact of Chinese Mega‐Projects

Shanghai swings: The Hongqiao project and competitive urbanism in the Yangtze River Delta

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