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Governing cities through regions: Evolution of regional plans for the Yangtze River Delta mega city-region 以区治市:长江三角洲特大城市区域规划演变

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research Pub Date : 2023-02-12 DOI: 10.1177/27541223221149852

W. Chen, Fenglin Yuan, Wei Sun, Yi Li

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引用次数: 1

Plans and projects for the Central Plains of China: New forms of extended urbanisation in Zhengzhou metropolitan region 中国中原地区的规划与工程:郑州都市圈扩展城市化的新形式

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research Pub Date : 2023-02-09 DOI: 10.1177/27541223231151442

Leonardo Ramondetti

{"title":"Plans and projects for the Central Plains of China: New forms of extended urbanisation in Zhengzhou metropolitan region","authors":"Leonardo Ramondetti","doi":"10.1177/27541223231151442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223231151442","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":229645,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in Planning and Urban Research","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130193453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Stepwise transition of urban entrepreneurialism in cross-boundary statecraft: A qualitative study of an enclave industrial park in Zhejiang province, China 城市企业家精神的跨界转型:基于浙江省飞地工业园区的定性研究

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research Pub Date : 2023-02-02 DOI: 10.1177/27541223221146681

Xianchun Zhang, Zihang Zhou, Yu Yang

{"title":"Stepwise transition of urban entrepreneurialism in cross-boundary statecraft: A qualitative study of an enclave industrial park in Zhejiang province, China","authors":"Xianchun Zhang, Zihang Zhou, Yu Yang","doi":"10.1177/27541223221146681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223221146681","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the roles and ideologies of cross-boundary statecraft in the context of urban entrepreneurialism in multi-level bureaucratic China. Referring to comparative studies on city diplomacy, intrapreneurialism, and state entrepreneurialism, we conducted a case study of Quzhou Inno-Industrial Park (QIIP) (an enclave industrial park) in Zhejiang province to clarify the nature of territorial rationality in cross-boundary development. We thus found that entrepreneurial objectives were fulfilled through top-down politics, wherein roles played by the central, provincial, and municipal governments were differentiated in territorial expressions. First, the provincial government actualized central government initiatives by promulgating developmental agenda and distributing to municipalities under state entrepreneurialism. Second, municipalities forged independent territorial rationality to benefit bilateral development through city diplomacy when releasing cross-boundary cooperation schemes. Third, multiple governments have chosen speculative and experimental practices over passive compliance with allegiances through top-down bureaucratic dictates, thus fulfilling provincial developmental intentions within territorial incentives of local benefits. Overall, these findings reveal an arrangement that greatly differs from a fixed modality of urban entrepreneurialism, wherein cross-boundary statecraft exposes stepwise genres in a transitional spectrum of urban entrepreneurialism that reflects perceptions of multi-level bureaucratic China.","PeriodicalId":229645,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in Planning and Urban Research","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130976542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Environmental city-regionalism in China: War against air pollution in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region 中国的环境城市区域主义:对抗京津冀地区空气污染的战争

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research Pub Date : 2023-01-04 DOI: 10.1177/27541223221144595

Weikai Wang, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang

{"title":"Environmental city-regionalism in China: War against air pollution in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region","authors":"Weikai Wang, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang","doi":"10.1177/27541223221144595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223221144595","url":null,"abstract":"The state remains central in contemporary environmental politics and policies, although environmental governance increasingly involves neoliberal and non-state mechanisms. Environmental management in China holds features of an ‘environmental state’ and has been undergoing continuous restructuring, manifested by a recent city-regionalism turn. Informed by the theories of eco-state restructuring (ESR) and eco-scalar fix, this paper investigates air pollution management in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region by tracing the practices of environmental and territorial governance over the past decades. Through the analysis of parameters of the eco-state, this paper conceptualises the air pollution governance in China into three phases, namely pollutants emission control (the 1990s–2005), campaign-style regional governance (2006–2012) and city-regionalism in air quality governance (2013 onwards). We find that the central state plays proactive but different roles in each phase, characterised by state strategic selectivity, adjustments of state apparatus, deployment of a set of policy instruments, and enhanced state capacities for monitoring, control and legitimation. In this context, the city-regional level has become the key scale at which environmental regulations are targeted and the economic and environmental realms are being (re)formed. This state-led eco-scalar fix process to cope with urgent environmental issues explains the underlying rationality of building up the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region as a new national strategic project.","PeriodicalId":229645,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in Planning and Urban Research","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125216912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Housing (de-)financialisation under state entrepreneurialism in China: The revival of affordable housing and Shanghai’s shared-ownership housing scheme 中国国家企业家主义下的住房(去)金融化:经济适用房的复兴和上海的股份制住房计划

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/27541223221147199

Jie Shen, Xiang Luo, Zhe Sun

引用次数: 2

E-commerce: A platform for local economic development? Evidence from Taobao Villages in Zhejiang Province, China 电子商务:地方经济发展的平台?来自中国浙江省淘宝村的证据

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/27541223221143986

N. Phelps, Cassandra C. Wang, Julie T. Miao, Jia Zhang

引用次数: 1

The new growth machine and neighborhood redevelopment in the Chinese cities of the Xijinping era: The case of Jinsong, Beijing

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/27541223221138858

Zhigang Li

{"title":"The new growth machine and neighborhood redevelopment in the Chinese cities of the Xijinping era: The case of Jinsong, Beijing","authors":"Zhigang Li","doi":"10.1177/27541223221138858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223221138858","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines Jinsong, a typical old and dilapidated Beijing neighborhood that has recently been renewed, as an example of the changing dynamics of urban redevelopment in Xijinping-era China. During the past several years, a new round of urban redevelopment has begun, the modalities of which have not yet been fully explored. I argue that a new growth machine (NGM) is in the making, differing from the old mode of mass destruction, reconstruction, and resident relocation in that it features micro, incremental, and in situ redevelopments. To examine this NGM, this paper sheds light upon the case of Jinsong, with an analysis largely based on fieldwork, surveys, and semi-structured interviews with various stakeholders involved in the neighborhood’s redevelopment process. In comparison to the old growth machine, the NGM moves more slowly and yields profits on a smaller scale. The NGM is still state-oriented, and there is a strong coalition of state and market enterprises through which the state achieves its political goal of ‘people-centered’ development; the market enterprises, however, also generate revenues in innovative ways, largely through property management, assetization, and the deeper marketization of neighborhood space.","PeriodicalId":229645,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in Planning and Urban Research","volume":"159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133047061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Entrepreneurial and modular urbanism in China: New cities and new areas in the 2000s 中国的创业型和模块化城市主义:2000年代的新城和新区

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/27541223221126924

Shiuh‐Shen Chien, M. Woodworth

{"title":"Entrepreneurial and modular urbanism in China: New cities and new areas in the 2000s","authors":"Shiuh‐Shen Chien, M. Woodworth","doi":"10.1177/27541223221126924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223221126924","url":null,"abstract":"This article assesses the recent trend in cities across China toward building new towns, new areas, new districts, new cities and other urbanizing projects in suburban areas. We refer to these projects under the generic term “new city and new area” following the Mandarin usage (xincheng xinqu) (hereafter NCNA). Such projects are commonly on the fringes of urban centers, have significant area size, and are multifunctional in character. Hundreds of NCNA projects have been undertaken in recent years, reshaping metropolitan regions and altering the nature of China’s urbanization. Overall, the NCNA phenomenon emerges within China’s broader transition to a market economy amid the persistence of state land tenure, a Party-based personnel assessment system motivating intense careerism among urban officials, and the need for local administrations to push land development further into metropolitan peripheries to sustain local accumulation. The paper offers two urgent contributions to the existing literature. First, it discusses a panoramic assessment of the pervasive NCNA phenomenon and proposes a four-part typology of projects: (1) new Alpha-cities, (2) middle-class enclaves, (3) techno-poles, and (4) themed cities. Second, we provide an analysis of the underlying political-economic forces driving their development and highlight the variegated development trajectories of so-called modular urbanism in the current day.","PeriodicalId":229645,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in Planning and Urban Research","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132099955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Coping with the COVID-19 lockdown: The role of household and family responsibilities in Beijing 应对COVID-19封锁:家庭和家庭责任在北京的作用

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/27541223221143383

Weilin Xu, M. Dijst, Y. Chai

{"title":"Coping with the COVID-19 lockdown: The role of household and family responsibilities in Beijing","authors":"Weilin Xu, M. Dijst, Y. Chai","doi":"10.1177/27541223221143383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223221143383","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic combined with lockdown measures fundamentally changed urban family life worldwide. This article compares how different household types—singles, couples, nuclear families, and extended families—experienced the lockdown during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Beijing. It argues that not only the household responsibilities associated with household types at the household level, but also the family responsibilities on a larger geographical scale must be considered to understand the challenges faced by different households under the COVID-19 lockdown in urban China, where intergenerational supports such as family responsibilities to other generations living apart are prevalent during the pre-pandemic stage due to the collectivist culture. This article contributes the lens of household diversity and geographic distance to understanding everyday lives of families under lockdown and to reflect on family transformation in urban China over the past decades more broadly. Through the study of families, it also has implications for neighborhood planning and management aimed at mitigating a pandemic’s negative impacts.","PeriodicalId":229645,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in Planning and Urban Research","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127561579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Health benefits of compact cities for Chinese older adults: Nation-level study of Chinese cities 紧凑型城市对中国老年人健康的益处:中国城市的国家层面研究

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/27541223221146704

Feixiang Sun, Yu Zhou

{"title":"Health benefits of compact cities for Chinese older adults: Nation-level study of Chinese cities","authors":"Feixiang Sun, Yu Zhou","doi":"10.1177/27541223221146704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223221146704","url":null,"abstract":"Studies in North American and European cities since the 2000s have found that living in compact cities led to health gains for urban residents, although the benefits can be small and nuanced. Studies in China have shown mixed results, and higher urban density can be associated with adverse health outcomes due to heavier air pollution and overcrowding in Chinese cities. This paper examines the relationship between urban compactness and the self-rated health of older adults in 278 Chinese prefectural and up-level cities based on China’s 2010 census. We use a composite urban compact index incorporating population density, land use, and transportation patterns—salient characteristics according to the compact city and health literature. Our results show that living in compact cities in China is associated with significant statistical gain in self-evaluations of health for older adults, controlling for demographic, socioeconomic, and environmental variables, but the extents of the benefit vary among cities in Eastern, Central, and Western Regions of China, confirming the nonlinear relationship suggested by other studies on individual Chinese cities. The research calls for greater attention to the role of compact cities in supporting the healthy aging processes for older adults in urban China and the potential damage to their physical and mental well-being due to rapidly declining urban compactness in recent decades. The model also identifies other distinctive contributing factors for the self-rated health of older adults in three geographical zones and policy implications.","PeriodicalId":229645,"journal":{"name":"Transactions in Planning and Urban Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130975840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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