Shantytown redevelopment projects: State-led redevelopment of declining neighbourhoods under market transition in Shenyang, China

Li, Xin; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2017.10.016

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“…Therefore, in formal administrative process, there is no channel for developers to involve before project implementation (Zhuang et al 2019). Since urban renewal is top-down public projects in China, administrative power is dominantly influential to the decision-making (Li et al 2018;Yi et al 2017;Zhuang et al 2019). To better explore the urban renewal decision-making, this paper selects the stakeholder groups which highly and actively participate in administrative activities in decision-making as the focuses.…”

Section: Urban Renewal Decision-making and Key Stakeholder Groupsmentioning

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An analysis of urban renewal decision-making in China from the perspective of transaction costs theory: the case of Chongqing

Zhuang

Qian

Visscher

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J Hous and the Built Environ

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In China, there is a growing number of urban renewal projects due to the rapid growth of the economy and urbanization. To meet the needs of urban development, urban renewal requires a sound decision-making approach involving various stakeholder groups. However, current urban renewal decision-making is criticized for poor efficiency, equity, and resulting in many unintended adverse outcomes. It is claimed that high-level transaction costs (e.g., a great deal of time spent on negotiation and coordination) are the factors hidden behind the problems. However, few studies have analyzed urban renewal decisionmaking in a transaction costs perspective. Using the case of Chongqing, this paper aims at adopting transaction costs theory to understand the administrative process of urban renewal decision-making in China. This research focuses on four key stakeholder groups: municipal government, district government, local administrative organizations, and the consulting parties. A transaction costs analytical framework is established. First, the decision-making stages of urban renewal and involved key stakeholder groups are clarified. Second, the transactions done by different stakeholder groups in each stage is identified, thus to analyze what types of transaction costs are generated. Third, the relative levels of transaction costs among different stakeholder groups were measured based on the interview. The empirical analysis reveals how transaction costs occur and affect urban renewal decision-making. Finally, policy implications were proposed to reduce transaction costs in order to enhance urban renewal.

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Section: Urban Renewal Decision-making and Key Stakeholder Groupsmentioning

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An analysis of urban renewal decision-making in China from the perspective of transaction costs theory: the case of Chongqing

Zhuang

Qian

Visscher

et al. 2020

J Hous and the Built Environ

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“…In China, huge number of people from various social groups have been affected by the wave of capital accumulation through continuous spatial (re)development and consumption. Obviously, various levels of government and developers strongly affect the nature and course of the relocation process, as a result of their (changing) roles, resources and interests (Li, Kleinhans, and Van Ham 2018). The same applies to rules and regulations on various administrative levels, and the state of the local housing market.…”

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“…In 2013, the central government triggered the second round of large-scale urban clearance projects. It is estimated that between 2013 and 2017 approximately 10 million households will have been affected (Li, Kleinhans, and Van Ham 2018; The State Council of PRC 2013).…”

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Understanding the Experiences of Relocatees during Forced Relocation in Chinese Urban Restructuring

Ham

Kleinhans

2018

Housing, Theory and Society

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Despite the massive forced relocation of residents during urban restructuring in China, there is no systematic overview regarding how residents experience the process and its outcomes. Most studies concerning urban restructuring in China directly equate forced relocation with displacement, which has a negative connotation. This predominantly negative view overlooks the multifaceted effects of forced relocation on relocatees. This paper aims to provide a better understanding of relocatees' experiences during urban redevelopment in China by establishing a conceptual model in which the time sequence of events and their context are central. It conceptualizes forced relocation as a process with various and changing socio-spatial implications over time, and as a specific type of residential mobility that occurs in the context of urban restructuring. As such, the conceptual model divides the process of forced relocation into a pre-demolition stage, a transitional stage and a post-relocation stage and investigates the social, economic, physical, psychological and behavioural dimensions of the experiences of relocatees as affected by the macro and micro context. The conceptual model is used to structure the analysis of the existing literature about residents' experiences and to subsequently identify the gaps in the literature that should be addressed in future studies of forced relocation in the Chinese context.

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“…Land acquisition, housing demolition, displacement and residential relocation take place prior to urban (re)development (He et al ., ; Shin, ; Wang and Aoki, ). Social conflicts between the local state and displaced residents frequently occur as a result of unreasonable compensation offers, the state's biased relocation plans and forced evictions (Li et al ., ). Other current research focuses on the demographic, sociospatial and socioeconomic changes of (low‐income) displaced residents and exposes the dispossession (Shin, ), marginalization and impoverishment of these displaced groups (He and Wu, ; He, ).…”

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Urban Entrepreneurialism Vs Market Society: The Geography of China's Neoliberal Urbanism

Liu¹,

Yau²

2020

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Existing literature on China's neoliberal urbanism is preoccupied with its institutional incentives and political‐economy dynamics, which are characterized by state dominance through sponsorship and supervision of capital‐market operations that drive pro‐growth aspirations and gentrification strategies. Meanwhile, society, confronted with brutal neoliberal production of urban space, is vulnerable to dispossession and displacement. In this article, we draw upon an ethnographic study conducted at the Higher Education Mega Centre (HEMC) of Guangzhou in an attempt to revisit China's neoliberal urbanism beyond the Marxian political‐economy repertoire, and shift the theoretical focus from production to consumption. In an institutionalized neoliberal context, the state–market–society nexus is closely intertwined—a process that manifests itself as the entangling of state and market, the establishment of a market society, the reflexive effects between neoliberalization and Chinese urban entrepreneurialism, and the capital‐centric rule in urban (re)development. In particular, the socioeconomic and sociospatial contradictions in the HEMC case indicate aggressive and insatiable production of urban space, which has been led by the entrepreneurial local state, but is bounded by the market‐oriented and capital‐centric rules of institutionalized neoliberalization. The article concludes by calling for pragmatic reflection on the ‘hard’ neoliberal urbanism of the global South.

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Shantytown redevelopment projects: State-led redevelopment of declining neighbourhoods under market transition in Shenyang, China

Cited by 81 publications

References 50 publications

An analysis of urban renewal decision-making in China from the perspective of transaction costs theory: the case of Chongqing

An analysis of urban renewal decision-making in China from the perspective of transaction costs theory: the case of Chongqing

Understanding the Experiences of Relocatees during Forced Relocation in Chinese Urban Restructuring

Urban Entrepreneurialism Vs Market Society: The Geography of China's Neoliberal Urbanism

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