China's Urban Transformation: Patterns and Processes of Morphological Change in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou

Gaubatz, Piper

doi:10.1080/0042098992890

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“…In recent years, the development of the tertiary industry (such as financial services, education, and retailing) has overtaken manufacturing in leading economic growth and urbanisation (Gaubatz, 1999). Since 1999, the tertiary industry and urban construction have become new hot-points of investments.…”

Section: The Globalisation Layermentioning

confidence: 99%

Theorising Chinese urbanisation: A multi-layered perspective

Kesteloot

Cook

2014

Urban Studies

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Urbanisation in China and its rapid increase in recent decades as a result of industrialisation and globalisation are often conceived as a simplified process. Moreover, the speed of the present day process yields the impression that the traces of previous forms of urbanisation are erased for good. Both of these assumptions are challenged in this paper. The built environment resulting from this urbanisation process is to be conceived as a series of layers that reflect different modes of productions and related logics of production of space. Hence, we try to comprehend the spatial arrangement of the city, which can be thought of as a geological metaphor. The social groups that have to be sheltered in urban residential space also radically change in each of these periods. We proceed to analyse these layers and how they combine and interact over time with the concept of socio-spatial configuration, which denotes a precise type of residential environment related to a specific social group in the city. Chinese cities are made up of five types of urbanisation, reflected in five layers and their related socio-spatial configurations: the traditional, protoglobalisation, socialist, market-led and globalisation layers.

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Section: The Globalisation Layermentioning

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Theorising Chinese urbanisation: A multi-layered perspective

Kesteloot

Cook

2014

Urban Studies

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“…With the ongoing displacement of formerly residential use by business and service functions (Gaubatz, 1999), original inhabitants of the Chinese city are dispersed and replaced. Recent examples include the project of the Maglev extension, broadly discussed in the international press (People's Daily Online, 2007a, 9 May;Spiegel Online, 2007, 13 March), or the displacement of several thousand residents in view of the upcoming EXPO 2010 (People's Daily Online, 9 November 2004 and11 April 2005).…”

Section: A U T H O R C O P Ymentioning

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Blurring the joint line? Urban life on the edge between old and new in Shanghai

Iossifova

2009

Urban Des Int

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Urban renewal continues to play a major role in shaping the contemporary Chinese city. Old and run-down neighbourhoods either disappear to give way for new developments, or maintain their existence in immediate proximity to the latter. This small-scale ethnographic study, undertaken during 6 weeks on site in March and April 2007, examines the particular condition of spatial collision between the poor and the rich, the old and the new, the past and the future. It looks at an area of adjacent neighbourhoods in Shanghai, with focus on one recently redeveloped neighbourhood and one awaiting demolition prior to redevelopment. Their distinct spatial layouts and the lifestyles typical for their residents are found to join in a collage-like manner, thus forming an urban space of diversity and fragmentation. The very joint lines between those complementary neighbourhoods appear as rather dynamic entities, subject to continuous alteration in spite of their commonalities with static barriers. The paper proposes that collision between contrasting socio-spatial settings is -and will most likely remain -archetypical for the emerging Chinese city, as the poor, the old and the past are integral parts of the whole rather than diseases in need of eradication.

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“…Before the introduction of economic and urban reforms in the 1980s, most urban Chinese workers were the employees of state or collective-owned institutions or enterprises and worked and lived in the same danwei compounds (Wang and Murie 2000;Gaubatz 1999;Wang and Chai 2009). An important feature of danwei compounds is the proximity between work and residence.…”

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Residential self-selection, built environment, and travel behavior in the Chinese context

Wang

Lin

2014

JTLU

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Residential self-selection has been reported to be a factor confounding the observed relationship between built environment and travel behavior. By incorporating residential self-selection, studies have generated much insight into the causalities involved in the relationship between built environment and travel behavior. However, most of these studies were conducted in North American cities, where individuals may have the opportunity to realize their preferences in residential and transport mode choices. There are not many similar studies for other parts of the world, such as China, where residential and transport choices are probably more constrained than in North America. This paper aims to partly fill the gap by discussing the specificities of the residential self-selection issue in urban China and suggesting how to cope with this issue when examining the relationship between built environment and travel behavior in the Chinese context. We argue that studies addressing the residential self-selection issue in China need to consider the housing source, which has implications for residential choice, and acknowledge the importance of some travel-related attitudes such as preferences for short commutes, good accessibility to public transport, and proximity to markets for daily goods shopping.

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China's Urban Transformation: Patterns and Processes of Morphological Change in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou

Cited by 257 publications

References 6 publications

Theorising Chinese urbanisation: A multi-layered perspective

Theorising Chinese urbanisation: A multi-layered perspective

Blurring the joint line? Urban life on the edge between old and new in Shanghai

Residential self-selection, built environment, and travel behavior in the Chinese context

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