Questioning New Towns

Bonino, Michele; Governa, Francesca; Repellino, Maria Paola; Sampieri, Angelo

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“…Another difference between China's new towns and the western precedents is motivation. From the viewpoint of urban growth, some scholars believe that China's new towns are “built to create new expansion, not to limit it,” (Bonino et al 2019, 15) or, in Miller's word, “built ahead to anticipate growth” (Miller 2012, 135). Zhou regards “China's desire for economic development” as the core driver of the new town phenomenon (Zhou 2021, 55).…”

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China's new Towns in Controversy: A Literature Review

2021

Journal of Planning Literature

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In the past forty years, more than 3,800 new towns emerged and accommodated over 150 million urban inhabitants in China, which drew much attention since they were reported as “ghost cities” by media in the late 2000s. This literature review examines existing research and synthesizes current discussions through a meta-analysis. It concludes that existing literature, led by environmental scientists and designers, exhibits two polarized debates around the new towns’ uniqueness and the future of ghost cities. Gaps exist in national-scale surveys, criticism of planning methodology, and theories that can explain the current disputes.

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China's new Towns in Controversy: A Literature Review

2021

Journal of Planning Literature

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“…The land reserve was then used as collateral to obtain the bank loans necessary for infrastructural provisions and, once the infrastructural network was in place, the new towns became 'backup spaces' that could easily be modified to meet the needs of different stakeholders over time (Sampieri, 2019). This urban expansion led to a metropolisation process with satellite towns, industrial centres, and vast rural areas being turned into suburban zones of unified mega-cities (Bonino et al, 2019;Wu, 2016a). Within this picture, new towns treated the totality of urban space as a commodity: planning, zoning, marketing, and infrastructure supply were combined to build global centres to attract domestic and foreign investment within a context of competing cities.…”

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“…This growth did not proceed in a linear manner. The first wave of urban development sparked ‘centripetal urban growth’ 1 characterised by the construction of Economic and Technological Development Zones (ETDZs), new towns, and extended networks for mobility gravitating around the major urban centres (Bonino et al, 2019; Cervero and Day, 2008). New urbanisations became ever larger, giving rise to a novel form of suburbanisation made up of polycentric regions around a few major cities (Wu, 2022; Yeh and Chen, 2020).…”

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Plans and projects for the Central Plains of China: New forms of extended urbanisation in Zhengzhou metropolitan region

Ramondetti

2023

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research

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Since the early 2000s, China has seen unprecedented urban growth which has spread to every corner of the country. This process has been anything but linear. Driven by the urban entrepreneurialism of the major municipalities until the mid-2000s, the reins have since passed to the central and regional administrations which plan development in a more comprehensive and coordinated fashion. This paper discusses how this turning point in urban policies has redirected planning activities: from the centripetal development of the major cities through new towns to centrifugal urbanisation fostering regional integration via wide-area projects and small-scale interventions. This is evident in the inland regions, which have become the testing grounds for new policies, governmental practices, and forms of spatial development. Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, is a case in point: once the epitome of urban entrepreneurialism policies in action, this metropolitan region is now the target of national plans and local initiatives to drive the Central Plains agglomeration. In addition to changes in its governance, this shift has also transformed planning activities, and so too the spatial features of this emerging urbanity. By investigating the changes in policies and plans, this contribution sheds light on the salient features of this metropolitan development, revealing the features of the emerging extended urbanisation in China, as well as continuities and ruptures with previous urban trends.

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Visual arts: imagining ashanzhaicity in twenty-first century China

Mirra

2023

Visual Studies

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Questioning New Towns

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China's new Towns in Controversy: A Literature Review

China's new Towns in Controversy: A Literature Review

Plans and projects for the Central Plains of China: New forms of extended urbanisation in Zhengzhou metropolitan region

Visual arts: imagining ashanzhaicity in twenty-first century China

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