Urbanization, Institutional Change, and Sociospatial Inequality in China, 1990–2001

White, Michael J.; Wu, Fulong; Chen, Yiu Por

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“…Taking these considerations into account, a hybrid and process-oriented approach, in accordance with White et al (2008) and Wu (2007a), is thus applied within this paper, placing state action in context and illuminating aspects of urban change through the prism of the developmental state and urban entrepreneurialism. In contrast to Western capitalism, represented by business associations (e.g.…”

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“…From a postcolonial and developmental perspective, theories of modernization, dependency/world system, the developmental state or post-socialist transition are often problematic in that they privilege economic structural change but undertheorize explicit state strategies and policies, emphasize determinist world politics but lack a detailed account of local growth dimensions, point out local structures and processes but neglect the role of agents behind a developmental state, or stress the root of socialism but disregard the stage of economic development and the state's position in the world system (cf. White et al, 2008 andLogan andFainstein, 2008 for more sustained reflection on these perspectives).…”

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Glurbanization of the Chinese megacity Guangzhou – image-building and city development through entrepreneurial governance

Bercht

2013

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Abstract. The continuing integration of the Chinese economy into the globalizing world and increasing intercity competition have had significant and comparatively recent implications for post-socialist urbanization in China. Driven by market-oriented development and globalization, decentralization of economic decisionmaking and downscaling of governance from the central state to local governments and authorities characterize the changing role of the state from urban managerialism to urban entrepreneurialism. Drawing on Jessop's definition of the entrepreneurial city and his concept of glurbanization, this paper aims to identify and analyse different modes of entrepreneurial urban governance based on the example of Guangzhou, a Chinese megacity that has been under intense pressure to revitalize its leading role as an economic, commercial and cultural centre in the Pearl River Delta and the rest of southern China. To face globalization and promote competitiveness, Guangzhou pursues various innovative interscalar entrepreneurial strategies in an active entrepreneurial fashion through adopting an entrepreneurial discourse. This is critically reflected upon within this article.

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Glurbanization of the Chinese megacity Guangzhou – image-building and city development through entrepreneurial governance

Bercht

2013

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“…The economic reform and the “open‐door policy” implemented in the early 1980s have changed dramatically the urban context within which neighborhood committees and neighborhood police stations operate in urban China. Neighborhoods in urban China have become much more differentiated as the rapid construction of residential units has transformed the built environment and as city residents have become increasingly able to use household resources and human capital to sort themselves into neighborhoods through a housing market that is more open than it was in the past (White, Wu, and Chen, ). In addition, new forms of market‐based controls have emerged through the purchase of contracted services.…”

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Neighborhood Social Control and Perceptions of Crime and Disorder in Contemporary Urban China*

2017

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KEYWORDS: neighborhood organization, social control, perceptions of crime and disorder, urban China By drawing on the two streams of Western literature on "neighborhood effects" and perceptions of neighborhood disorder adapted to the distinctive organizational infrastructure of neighborhoods in contemporary urban China, we examine the contextual effects of different forms of neighborhood social control (i.e., collective efficacy, semipublic control, public control, and market-based control) on different types of perceived disorder (i.e., criminal activity, social disorder, physical disorder, and total disorder) across neighborhoods. The analyses are based on data collected in the year 2013 from a survey of approximately 2,500 households in 50 neighborhoods across the city of Tianjin. Collective efficacy as a form of informal control has a significant effect only for perceived social disorder. Public control as measured by the activities of neighborhood police stations has a significant contextual effect on all forms of perceived disorder, whereas the role of market-based control as represented by contracted community services is limited to perceived physical disorder. Finally, semipublic control as measured by the activities of neighborhood committees significantly affects all forms of perceived disorder, but the direction of the effect is positive. We interpret this positive effect with reference to the complex processes surrounding the "translation" of neighborhood disorderly conditions into perceptions of disorder.A key development in criminology over the course of the past few decades has been the resurgence of interest in "neighborhood effects" to understand disorderly conditions, including criminal activity (Sampson, Morenoff, and Gannon-Rowley, 2002). As Skogan (2012: 174; has observed, the accumulated evidence is difficult to summarize succinctly because the concept of disorder encompasses a wide range of concrete

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The Segregated Residence Under the Market Economy

Wang

2016

A Century of Change

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Urbanization, Institutional Change, and Sociospatial Inequality in China, 1990–2001

Cited by 10 publications

References 66 publications

Glurbanization of the Chinese megacity Guangzhou – image-building and city development through entrepreneurial governance

Glurbanization of the Chinese megacity Guangzhou – image-building and city development through entrepreneurial governance

Neighborhood Social Control and Perceptions of Crime and Disorder in Contemporary Urban China*

The Segregated Residence Under the Market Economy

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