The Governance of Urban Upgrading in Southern China

Altrock, Uwe; Schoon, Sonia

doi:10.1080/02513625.2011.10654017

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“…Furthermore, a good physical condition of urban villages in Guangdong is a significant precondition for upgrading. Other municipalities might thus continue to find demolition a more cost‐effective option to fulfil developmental objectives, notwithstanding obvious social ramifications (Altrock and Schoon, 2011). However, as Chien and Woodworth (2018: 732) note, ‘a remarkable feature of China's urban spatial growth is the duplication of projects as administrations embrace the latest fashions and copy projects from elsewhere’ in the nation.…”

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SOCIALLY ENGAGED MUNICIPAL STATECRAFT IN URBAN CHINA? The Shenzhen Biennale as Situated Planning Experiment

Teo¹

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In this article I build on scholarship that calls for attention to the interventionist role of the municipality in steering development beyond growth to introduce the situated planning experiment as a mechanism through which municipalities practice socially engaged statecraft. The situated planning experiment foregrounds place‐based innovative planning practices that incorporate the participation of citizen intellectuals who act as advocates for marginalized groups in China. I frame the Shenzhen Urbanism\Architecture Biennale (UABB) as a situated planning experiment, tracing its influence on the municipality's shift in approach to planning for urban village redevelopment. I show how the UABB is leveraged as an instrument for the municipality to connect social and economic objectives in development and how it presents differentiated opportunities for migrant residents to make viable urban lives. The article offers one possibility for theorizing the changing relationship between municipal entrepreneurialism and urban planning and critically evaluates the potential for socially engaged municipal statecraft, considering the Xi regime's focus on people‐oriented urbanization. It represents one way in which studies of municipal statecraft can consider the variegated logics and forms of emerging post‐growth state programmes and politics.

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SOCIALLY ENGAGED MUNICIPAL STATECRAFT IN URBAN CHINA? The Shenzhen Biennale as Situated Planning Experiment

Teo¹

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Consequently, the inherited spatial features undermined the administrative discourse, which has often referred to VICs as the 'cancer of the contemporary Chinese city' [66,67]. To achieve greater control of urban planning, Guangdong Province launched the 'three oldies' redevelopment policy (sanjiu gaizao) in 2008 [68]. The term 'three oldies', utilized by provincial and Guangzhou municipal policy makers [28], refers to (1) the urban legacies of the centre's historic areas (jiu chengzhen), (2) former brownfield sites (jiu changfang), and (3) historical villages (jiu cunzhuang).…”

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Socio-Spatial ‘Tabula Rasa’ and Punctual Preservation: The Case Study of Measurable Compensation in Lijiao Village

Bruno

2022

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Villages in the cities (VICs) exhibit all the contradictions of contemporary Chinese urbanisation. These historic settlements attracted large floating populations during the booming urban economy, which redefined their morphological assets. Moreover, their urban persistence reflects the social and cultural modifications occurring within metropolises. Municipal governments’ attention was drawn to the extraordinary densification process, triggering negotiation regarding urban upgrades and social engagement alongside the overall transformation of VICs. Despite the broad scientific literature on VIC redevelopment, especially from urban and social studies perspectives, little attention has been paid to the spatial and monetary compensation awarded for forced or planned demolitions. The transition from informal agglomerations to residential compounds implies the action of local authorities cooperating with real estate developers to make existing house ownership the basis of compensation for measurable spaces in new typological configurations defined by radical social shifts. Lijiao village in Guangzhou was selected as a case study to observe how its urban renewal programme affected the evaluation of historic building preservation versus large selective demolition. Cultural heritage and spatial compensation have become the cornerstones for reconfiguring the village’s morphology and the everyday life experiences framed by interested local groups’ mediation.

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“…Informality has previously been studied from a static perspective, with an emphasis on the physical spaces or category of labor, such as the informal economy, informal labor, and informal settlement [ 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 ]. Recently, more research has overcome the dichotomy between formality and informality and has seen them as an inter-related and complementary unity [ 45 , 46 ]. The concept of “formality–informality” has frequently been taken as a starting point to study complex and dynamic urban issues and to explore the cooperation approaches between formal institutions and local residents’ spontaneous practices to form effective resource allocation or practice promoting socioeconomic development [ 47 , 48 ].…”

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Examining the Planning Policies of Urban Villages Guided by China’s New-Type Urbanization: A Case Study of Hangzhou City

Zhang

Han

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Planning policies have greatly influenced the development of urban villages, an informal phenomenon in which rural settlements are encircled by urban environments during China’s rapid urbanization process. “The National New-type Urbanization Plan (2014–2020)” of China initiated in 2014 provides a new perspective on planning policy research on China’ urban villages. Hangzhou, a pioneer city that adopts new-type urbanization in China and combines the characteristics of rapid urban growth, mountainous urban terrains, and a long cultural history, serves as a typical case study to compare the planning policies responding to the informality of urban villages guided by traditional and new-type urbanization. This study employed the content analysis method to analyze the evolution of Hangzhou’s planning policies of urban villages since the reform and opening up and used one-way ANOVA to analyze the differences in rental levels among the urban villages developed under the planning policies of different urbanization stages, aiming to compare the influences of planning policies guided by traditional and new-type urbanization on urban village development. The results indicate that the policies allowing some degree of informality in the new-type urbanization stage achieve a higher rental level for urban villages than the policies of the traditional urbanization stages that restrict and prevent informality. The findings of this research suggest that informality may provide advantages that formality cannot replace and provides important policy implications for rapidly urbanizing countries.

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The Governance of Urban Upgrading in Southern China

Cited by 14 publications

References 12 publications

SOCIALLY ENGAGED MUNICIPAL STATECRAFT IN URBAN CHINA? The Shenzhen Biennale as Situated Planning Experiment

SOCIALLY ENGAGED MUNICIPAL STATECRAFT IN URBAN CHINA? The Shenzhen Biennale as Situated Planning Experiment

Socio-Spatial ‘Tabula Rasa’ and Punctual Preservation: The Case Study of Measurable Compensation in Lijiao Village

Examining the Planning Policies of Urban Villages Guided by China’s New-Type Urbanization: A Case Study of Hangzhou City

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