China’s urban ideology: new towns, creation cities, and contested landscapes of memory

Oakes, Tim

doi:10.1080/15387216.2019.1668815

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“…The growth orientations of new cities thus further blur distinctions between the notion of a bounded new-town project and the leading edge of suburban sprawl. Hence, as Bonino et al (2019) have noted, China's new cities are unavoidably ambiguous and contradictory (see also, Oakes, 2019). Our use of the notion of the "new city" in this review builds on this insight.…”

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New cities in China: Tracking urban projects in the city fringe

Woodworth

Chien

2022

Geography Compass

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In recent decades, hundreds of new cities have been built in China with a notable acceleration of this trend in the 2000s.Yet despite their numbers and variety, China's new cities remain marginal to a wave of popular and scholarly attention directed at new towns and new cities globally. This article brings China's new cities into these conversations through review of extant literature on the topic. Research on China's new cities has focused on their functions as sites of accumulation, economic restructuring, globalization, territorialization, and innovation. In this article, we introduce these themes in the literature and show areas that remain ripe for future study.

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New cities in China: Tracking urban projects in the city fringe

Woodworth

Chien

2022

Geography Compass

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“…The Chinese state has widely experimented with planning mechanisms prior to integration into national planning and development contexts (Chien and Woodworth, 2018; Naughton, 1996; Oakes, 2019). Regarding urban planning practice, a broader range of participatory planning processes are needed to enhance inclusive participation.…”

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Social justice in China’s cities: Urban-rural restructuring and justice-oriented planning

Rodenbiker

2022

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research

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Research on China’s urban planning sector has largely focused on its role in delivering economic growth and state objectives. Yet China’s urban planning practices are producing new forms of social injustice, which few studies explicitly examine. The paper details three types of social injustice stemming from urban planning and urbanization processes: 1) economic disparities related to land and housing dispossession and speculation, 2) dissolution of social networks and relative precarity for rural-to-urban resettlement migrants, and 3) in-situ marginalization for residents excluded from urban planning. It further proposes that these types of social injustice can be addressed through distributional, participatory, and recognition-oriented mechanisms. Centering justice can reconfigure the aims, processes, and outcomes of planning practice, thereby reducing inequalities embedded within China’s urbanization. Without deprioritizing economic growth and state-led entrepreneurialism, however, justice-oriented planning can offer but partial remedies. The conclusion discusses pathways for researchers and planners to contribute to a just planning transition and advance social justice in China’s cities.

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“…Ironically, however, the emphasis on rural egalitarianism did not elevate the role of the rural in relation to the urban: rural communes were fundamentally spatial platforms that supported urban‐oriented industrialization through contributions of surplus capital (Kueh, 2006; Chan and Wei, 2019). As Oakes (2019: 402) puts it incisively, ‘it is “the urban” that constitutes the space through which the Party's underlying values are to guide political thought and practice. “The rural” remains a derivative category: the “non‐urban” other’.…”

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PEASANT MOBILIZATION, THE ‘LAND QUESTION’ AND SPATIAL EGALITARIANISM IN AN URBANIZING CHINA: A Genealogical Assessment and a New Research Agenda

Lim

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Urbanization has become a core strategy for the Communist Party of China (CPC) to reinforce its authoritarian rule over China. Its roll‐out is replete with tensions, however, because the extent to which urbanization can replicate spatial egalitarianism, the foundation of CPC sovereign rule following its victory in the Chinese civil war (1946–49), remains unclear. To advance research on these tensions, this article first presents a genealogy of the multiple conditions that underpinned large‐scale peasant mobilization to drive landownership redistribution. Rarely discussed in urban and regional research today, the logic and implications of landownership redistribution are crucial for comprehending and conceptualizing Chinese urbanization. Specifically, the genealogical analysis demonstrates how peasant mobilization engendered a de facto CPC‐peasantry social contract that consolidated CPC rule. Rather than dissolve unproblematically as the Chinese political economy evolves into an urbanizing era, this contract has engendered path‐dependent effects that constrain attempts at urban‐rural integration. The article then adds a fresh historical‐geographical dimension to existing research on Chinese urbanization and regime durability by introducing a new research agenda to examine why contemporary peasant mobilization across China not only differs from but is also shaped by the peasant mobilization of the late 1940s.

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China’s urban ideology: new towns, creation cities, and contested landscapes of memory

Cited by 19 publications

References 28 publications

New cities in China: Tracking urban projects in the city fringe

New cities in China: Tracking urban projects in the city fringe

Social justice in China’s cities: Urban-rural restructuring and justice-oriented planning

PEASANT MOBILIZATION, THE ‘LAND QUESTION’ AND SPATIAL EGALITARIANISM IN AN URBANIZING CHINA: A Genealogical Assessment and a New Research Agenda

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