Spatial Strategies of Urban Development: Rescaling and Territorialization in Post Reform China

Shen, Jianfa

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“…Urban district is often regarded as the clustered urban area in a city or county with more institutional restrictions from the city than county (Fan, Li, & Zhang, 2012;Chien, 2013). Shen (2008) identified four categories of typology of urban spatial changes which are elucidated as "Governing rural area", "Rural to urban transition", and "Changes in city status", "inter-city changes. Li (2011) pointed out that strategies such as "converting counties to county-level cities (xiangaishi)" and "transforming counties to urban districts (chexian she qu)" have been popularized, but not through automatic procedures that endorses the high urbanization levels in existing counties in China.…”

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Urbanization and administrative restructuring: A case study on the Wuhan urban agglomeration

Zeng

An-lu

2016

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a b s t r a c tUrbanization in China has been closely associated with urban sprawl, rural migration and the role of government has been more direct and powerful in setting it in motion. In 2014, the New Urbanization Planning in China has been released in which the development of urban agglomeration and smallmedium cities has been highlighted. In this context, we decompose urbanization into populationoriented and land-centered archetypes and devise spatial models in multiple strategies embedded with different spatial relations to unfold the underlying driving forces using Wuhan agglomeration as the case. In addition to the identification of major driving forces which are gross domestic product (GDP), income, fixed asset investment and the transportation construction, the major contributions of our study lie in the gauge on administrative influence, to be more specific, the status of urban district, city-level county and county, through incorporating different spatial weight matrix in different scenarios in spatial modeling. It found out that 1) both non-agricultural population and urban land exhibit significant spatial autocorrelation and the superiority in the city center is evident; 2) socio-economic development and transportation construction significantly influence urbanization whereas the personal income and fixed asset investment accounting for a large proportion being the most powerful factors; 3) different administrative status at the county level is an unneglectable factor and urban area has higher probability to expand when urban district is adjacent to county-level city; 4) the magnitude of this administrative status influence generally grows to a certain level and then reaches to a plateau. These findings provide theoretical basis for understanding the administrative dimension in new urbanization and have important policy implications on administrative adjustment and urban agglomeration.

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Urbanization and administrative restructuring: A case study on the Wuhan urban agglomeration

Zeng

An-lu

2016

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“…Besides, the creation of NSS may affect the current central–local relations of China. State spaces of China are stabilised through the area-based administration system (Shen, 2008). Accordingly, central–local relations are governed by the rank-size distribution of respective state administrations through a structure that is rigidly hierarchical.…”

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Planning discourses, local state commitment, and the making of a new state space (NSS) for China: Evidence from regional strategic development plans in the Pearl River Delta

Sun

Chan

2016

Urban Studies

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Grounded in the interpretive tradition, this paper applies the theory of New State Space (NSS) to China’s city regionalism. We argue that in the NSS effort in China, planning discourses enable a regulatory framework to be applied at the level of city region. City regionalism corresponds to the conceptualisation of NSS in two dimensions. First, the rise of the city region gives rise to a new territorial form of state administration. Second, the city region is made to be the most appropriate scale encapsulating capital–labour relationship (CLR). This study uses NSS to examine the regional strategic development plans (RSDPs) of the Pearl River Delta Region and presents two primary arguments based on an interpretation of the Outline of the Plan for the Reform and Development of the Pearl River Delta (2008–2020) (OPRDPRD) and the preliminary actions of various levels of government based on it. First, RSDPs serve as effective regulatory tools that not only enable new state administration articulating regulatory responsibility throughout the various levels of governmental hierarchy, but also elaborate the CLR in the interest of regional based industrial development, infrastructure construction, and formulation of social policies. Second, the city region has become a site for political rhetoric and related actions whereby regulatory order is unfolding in order to itself effect an economic restructuring and political reshuffle. Creating a city region is ‘planning ideological’ and solving problems is difficult because of the asymmetric jurisdictional power relations between municipalities.

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Territorialization of urban villages in China: The case of Guangzhou

Liang

Yuan

Tan

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Spatial Strategies of Urban Development: Rescaling and Territorialization in Post Reform China

Cited by 6 publications

References 26 publications

Urbanization and administrative restructuring: A case study on the Wuhan urban agglomeration

Urbanization and administrative restructuring: A case study on the Wuhan urban agglomeration

Planning discourses, local state commitment, and the making of a new state space (NSS) for China: Evidence from regional strategic development plans in the Pearl River Delta

Territorialization of urban villages in China: The case of Guangzhou

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