Decentralization in a centralized system: Project-based governance for land-related public goods provision in China

Tan, Rong; Zhou, Tianxiao

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.04.025

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“…Tan and Zhou [37] stated that decentralization increasingly attracted the attention of Chinese policy makers and researchers. Currently, the democracy and autonomy are placed at the center of the neighborhood (Shequ) concept in China.…”

Section: Decentralization and Community Empowermentmentioning

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Towards Sustainable Neighborhoods: Challenges and Opportunities for Neighborhood Planning in Transitional Urban China

2018

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Unlike many developed countries where sustainable development has been implemented at neighborhood scale, sustainable planning research and action has still been concentrated at the national level and little has focused on the neighborhood level in China. This issue was highlighted by the demand of facilitating sustainable development and significant transition of the socio-political context, which made the development of neighborhood planning even more urgent and challenging. Hence, this study aims to identify the major challenges, particularly related to the institutional aspects, for adopting neighborhood planning in the local community in China. Comprehensive literature review was employed to demonstrate the crucial position of institutional elements in facilitating sustainable neighborhood development and planning. A comparative study of the common characteristics for adopting neighborhood planning in four different countries was conducted. Based on the characters, the possible barriers hindering the practice of neighborhood planning in China were proposed and then validated with the in-depth expert interviews. The results show that there is little support from national policy and local governance, ambiguous legislation on community public management, as well as inadequate public participation and a weak sense of community. Corresponding policy implications and recommendations are included to provide insight for planners and decision makers to better utilize neighborhood planning to achieve sustainable urban development.

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Section: Decentralization and Community Empowermentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Sustainable Neighborhoods: Challenges and Opportunities for Neighborhood Planning in Transitional Urban China

2018

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“…Hence, urban development is only allowed in areas where suitability for agriculture and environmental protection is minimal. The current concern necessitates a somehow decentralized urban sprawl (Phelps et al, 2014;Tan and Zhou 2015). In this regard, an alternative form of urban growth reported in the literature is compact growth (Mahiny and Gholamalifard 2007;Rafiee et al, 2009;Dezhkam et al, 2013), which refers to construction of vacant lands in the interior urban ambient or adjacent to the urban boundary.…”

Section: Conceptual Framework For Decentralized Urban Growth Modelingmentioning

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Evaluating the strategy of decentralized urban land-use planning in a developing region

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“…Third, in order to make vertical subcontracting and horizontal competition operational, development targets need to be quantifiable and territorialized (Tan and Zhou, 2015). These quantifiable quotas are numbers for a key performance assessment metric, obliging local leaders to obey this upper-level government's policy while simultaneously to encourage local development.…”

Section: Creation Of Additional Land Quotas Via Territorialization Tamentioning

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Local farmland loss and preservation in China—A perspective of quota territorialization

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2015

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Decentralization in a centralized system: Project-based governance for land-related public goods provision in China

Cited by 38 publications

References 29 publications

Towards Sustainable Neighborhoods: Challenges and Opportunities for Neighborhood Planning in Transitional Urban China

Towards Sustainable Neighborhoods: Challenges and Opportunities for Neighborhood Planning in Transitional Urban China

Evaluating the strategy of decentralized urban land-use planning in a developing region

Local farmland loss and preservation in China—A perspective of quota territorialization

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