In search of regional planning in China:
            <i>The case of Jiangsu and the Yangtze Delta</i>

Wong, Cecilia; Qian, Hui; Zhou, Kai

doi:10.3828/tpr.79.2-3.8

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“…In recent years, there has been a renaissance of regional policies and planning across China (Li & Wu, 2012Luo, Shen, & Chen, 2010;Wong, Qian, & Zhou, 2008;Xu & Yeh, 2011). Different from past redistributive and allocative regional policies, recent approaches place emphasis on interjurisdictional co-operation and integration (Xu & Yeh, 2013).…”

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confidence: 97%

City-region integration policies and their incongruous outcomes: The case of Shantou-Chaozhou-Jieyang city-region in east Guangdong Province, China

Hay

2015

Habitat International

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

City-region integration policies and their incongruous outcomes: The case of Shantou-Chaozhou-Jieyang city-region in east Guangdong Province, China

Hay

2015

Habitat International

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“…They contrast regional plans in the 1950s, which were vehicles for a rational distribution of settlements and productivity to support the national economy (Wang and Hague 1993 ). They are also different from the statutory urban system plans required by the urban planning legislations, whose formulation usually subscribes to a normative paradigm focusing on articulating of a perfect spatial form (Wong et al 2008 ).…”

Section: Regionalizing Urban Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Upscaling in Progress: The Reinvention of Urban Planning as an Apparatus of Environmental Governance in China

Chung

2015

Population Mobility, Urban Planning and Management in China

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Through the lens of scalar politics, this paper examines how the Chinese national state has attempted to reassert its control over environmental governance through urban planning with successive rounds of scalar reconfi guration since the 1990s. Along with utilizing the traditional regulatory hierarchies, it has forced in a green urbanism agenda in local planning regimes through three forms of upscaling, namely, regionalizing urban development, intensifying intercity competition, and fostering global-local alliances. Not all of these attempts can claim immediate success, and the introduction of some has created new headaches to China's urban advancement and environmental protection.

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“…These are particularly noteworthy in the principal arenas of economic activity, of which the YRD is foremost, where rivalry and competition has been exacerbated by the consequences of urban scalar aggrandizement. The tensions that this competitive jostling for position engenders have been addressed in recent years through a centrally promoted emphasis on regional planning and regional collaboration which has led to a proliferation of regional plans (Wong et al, 2008). These plans represent a shift towards integrated planning that emphasizes coordinated social, economic and ecological targets over and above the charting out of physical infrastructure construction.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus we find competition between local government entities at every administrative level, but also between different central government agencies (Qian, 2013;Hsing, 2010). Regional plans are drawn up whose aim is to reinforce competitive position (Wong et al, 2008). City governments throughout China foster competition between rival CBDs, compete intensely for 'national new areas' and indulge in the construction of huge but largely empty satellite cities (Gaubatz, 2005;Li, 2015).…”

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Shanghai swings: The Hongqiao project and competitive urbanism in the Yangtze River Delta

2016

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That cities compete against each other is a cliché of the contemporary neoliberal condition, in which so much focus and energy is expended on a zero-sum-game of trying to outshine imagined rivals. In this paper we examine how this type of competition plays itself out in China, and more specifically in and around Shanghai, in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD). We argue that the competition here, principally for foreign and domestic inward investment, is intense and multi-scalar. It is fuelled in particular by China's nested territorial administrative structure, leading to a situation that eventually involves all scales, from district to central government. We choose therefore the term competitive urbanism to encapsulate these multi-scalar and multi-directional competitive forces. Lying at the centre of this competitive urbanism in the YRD is the giant new Hongqiao project in west Shanghai, second only in expanse and ambition to Pudong. The Shanghai municipal government has promoted this project partly in response to competitive pressures from other cities in the YRD, and partly to swing the dynamic of growth westward within the city and link it better to its hinterland. In this way, Hongqiao is reinforcing and accelerating the competitive urbanism that characterizes China's most prosperous region.

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In search of regional planning in China: The case of Jiangsu and the Yangtze Delta

Cited by 27 publications

References 26 publications

City-region integration policies and their incongruous outcomes: The case of Shantou-Chaozhou-Jieyang city-region in east Guangdong Province, China

City-region integration policies and their incongruous outcomes: The case of Shantou-Chaozhou-Jieyang city-region in east Guangdong Province, China

Upscaling in Progress: The Reinvention of Urban Planning as an Apparatus of Environmental Governance in China

Shanghai swings: The Hongqiao project and competitive urbanism in the Yangtze River Delta

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