Towards sustainable urban transition: A critical review of strategies and policies of urban village renewal in Shenzhen, China

Pan, Wenjian; Du, Jianqing

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105744

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“…The frequency of each keyword or phrase was then calculated considering the date the policy was issued and the implementation approaches used. The first time a keyword or phrase appeared in a policy was recorded; however, the recording did not occur if the keyword or phrase appeared multiple times in the same policy [ 66 ]. The calculation of keywords frequency is shown in “ supplementary materials ”.…”

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

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“…The systematic literature survey was used to select relevant policies for new-type urbanisation in this paper. This is a widely used but an effective method to narrow down research problems and formulate a specific research question [50] and enables researchers to quickly capture the origins, development, and frontiers of the research field as well as the related topics to identify the knowledge gaps through keywords searching and indexing via some reliable literature databases [51]. By this method, the relative policies were selected into a dataset for following analysis.…”

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Implementations of China’s New-Type Urbanisation: A Comparative Analysis between Targets and Practices of Key Elements’ Policies

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China’s new-type urbanisation, as a national strategy, is one of the reasons why the leap in development has been made in the last decade. Existing studies mainly focus on the status and outcomes of china’s new-type urbanisation while stressing not enough the overlooked aspects of new-type urbanisation policies that are currently in use. This paper aims at exploring the highlighted and overlooked aspects of policies of three key elements in China’s new-type urbanisation: population, land, and industry and their implementations. The complicated process and contradictions between formulation and implementation of the policies are extracted by analysing set goals and implemented situations of relative indicators from the three elements. The policies drove the population from separation to unity between household registered and actual residences, land from human land allometry to balance, and industry from traditional industrialisation to emerging service. Although these policies had significant achievements in the transitions of formulation, they still needed to be further implemented. Furthermore, this paper discusses corresponding reasons and potential directions to better the adoption of these policies for greater inclusion and systematic efficiency. The findings could not only highlight directions that improve existing policies of China’s new-type urbanisation but also provide guidance for inclusive and sustainable urbanisation practices in China as well as other cities in similar situations all over the world.

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“…Most of the urban villages are often associated with dirty, overcrowding, garbage-strewn streets, unplanned land use, and more social problems such as crimes, fire hazards, and con?icts, even China's “slum,” which have restricted the urbanization and sustainable development of cities ( 17 , 47 , 48 ). These are the primary reasons why many cities support the demolition of urban villages ( 9 ). Many local governments believe that urban villages are in need for demolition and redevelopment which can not only promote the efficient use of land resources but also contribute to the public economy sustained healthy development of the city ( 24 , 49 ).…”

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“…Most of them are disparaged as neighborhoods of moldy housing, garbage-strewn streets, poor public safety, and unplanned land use due to poor environmental quality and high crime rates, which have a large negative impact on public health (6)(7)(8). Therefore, urban villages are generally recognized as undesirable enclaves and demolition is supported by the authority in many cities (9)(10)(11).…”

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To Stay or to Leave? Migrant Workers' Decisions During Urban Village Redevelopment in Hangzhou, China

Jin

Ren

Mao

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As a vital source of the demographic dividend, migrant workers living in urban villages have positively contributed to urban economic development and the improvement of urbanization. Although urban villages have had a great impact on public health due to the shabby environments and poor public safety, the large-scale demolition of the urban villages, the supply of affordable housing for migrant workers has decreased drastically, which may lead to the outflow of many migrant workers and consequently affects the sustainable operations of cities. Therefore, this paper takes Hangzhou as an example to study the impact of urban village redevelopment on migrant workers and their migration decisions during urban village redevelopment process. The finding indicates that migrant workers are significantly impacted by large-scale demolition. (1) The number of affected migrant workers is huge. For example, 657,000 migrant workers who lived in around 178 urban villages are affected in Hangzhou (34,468 households). (2) The increase in rent is obvious. (3) Strong expulsion effect: nearly 1/3 migrant workers will decide to leave the city because of the demolition. Furthermore, our binary logistic regression model suggests that the commuting time, living satisfactory, and the rent affordability are factors significantly affecting migration workers' decision to leave and stay in the city. The housing quality and comfort indicators are not significant. This indicates that convenience for employment and high rent avoidance are the major characteristics of migrant workers' housing choice. Hence, in addition to considering whether the harsh environment is harmful to the public health of urban and residents, the interest and characteristics of migrant workers should be considered during the current urban village demolition process. While simply demolishing urban villages, government needs to provide a relatively sufficient amount of low-cost and affordable housing for migrant workers in case migrant workers leave the city in large numbers due to lack of suitable housing in the city.

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Towards sustainable urban transition: A critical review of strategies and policies of urban village renewal in Shenzhen, China

Cited by 67 publications

References 56 publications

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

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

Implementations of China’s New-Type Urbanisation: A Comparative Analysis between Targets and Practices of Key Elements’ Policies

To Stay or to Leave? Migrant Workers' Decisions During Urban Village Redevelopment in Hangzhou, China

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