Three Olds: Experimental Urban Restructuring with Chinese Characteristics, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in Comparison

Schoon, Sonia

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6674-7_5

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“…In the early 2000s, these chengzhongcun became the focus of local policy-makers, who issued a series of guidelines and resolutions aimed at upgrading and integrating them into the urban fabric. Because of the great variation across chengzhongcun , as well as the number of stakeholders involved in the redevelopment process, many of these projects faltered (Schoon, 2014). Guangzhou’s selection as host of the 2010 Asian Games provided new impetus to these redevelopment projects and boosted urban elites’ ability to attain “world-class” status (Shin, 2014).…”

Section: Guangzhou: Aspirational Global Metropolismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In late 2009, the city attempted to unify the redevelopment of chengzhongcun under the policy of the “three olds redevelopment” ( sanjiu gaizao ). The “three olds” consisted of old towns, old industrial plants and old villages, though the majority of the targeted areas (54 percent) were chengzhongcun (Schoon, 2014: 108).…”

Section: Guangzhou: Aspirational Global Metropolismentioning

confidence: 99%

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“Clean, safe and orderly”: Migrants, race and city image in global Guangzhou

Wilczak

2018

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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This paper examines an urban renewal project in Xiaobei, a neighborhood that has become a gathering place for African traders in the Chinese city of Guangzhou. Drawing on documentary analysis, interviews and site visits, the paper argues that, while there is a racial element to the project, we should be careful about ascribing it solely to anti-black racism. The project is as much characterized by pejorative discourses about internal migrants as it is about Africans. Moreover, the project is not unique to Xiaobei, and should also be understood in the context of Guangzhou’s efforts to become a competitive “global” city.

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Section: Guangzhou: Aspirational Global Metropolismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Guangzhou: Aspirational Global Metropolismentioning

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“Clean, safe and orderly”: Migrants, race and city image in global Guangzhou

Wilczak

2018

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal

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“…In Guangzhou, there were about 494 km 2 subject to the Three Olds policy, accounting for 42.4% of all Three Olds areas in Guangdong province. Of Guangzhou’s Three Old areas 11% were old inner-city neighbourhoods, while 53.9% were urbanised villages (see Schoon, 2014). In January 2010, it was reported that Guangzhou aimed to complete the wholesale redevelopment of 120 km 2 as well as comprehensive improvement of another 100 km 2 by 2020 ( Nanfang Daily , 2010).…”

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Economic transition and speculative urbanisation in China: Gentrification versus dispossession

Shin

2015

Urban Studies

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Gentrification requires properties to be available for investment through market transactions. In mainland China which has gone through transition from a planned to a market economy, it is necessary to unleash decommodified real estate properties and make them amenable to investment. This entails inhabitants' dispossession to dissociate them from claiming their rights to the properties and to their neighbourhoods. This paper argues that while China's urban accumulation may have produced new-build gentrification, redevelopment projects have been targeting dilapidated urban spaces that are yet to be fully converted into commodities. This means that dispossession is a precursor to gentrification. Dispossession occurs through both coercion and co-optation, and reflects the pathdependency of China's socialist legacy. The findings contribute to the debates on contextualising the workings of gentrification in the global South, and highlight the importance of identifying multiple urban processes at work to produce gentrification and speculative urban accumulation.

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“…For this purpose, a policy called "Several Opinions on Promoting Three Olds Redevelopment to Increase Land Use Efficiency" was issued. In this context, the term "three olds" refers to declining and run-down inner-city old towns, old factory sites and urban villages (for details see Schoon, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%