eprintid: 10183205
rev_number: 8
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datestamp: 2023-12-07 12:04:43
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sword_depositor: 699
creators_name: Wang, Weikai
creators_name: Wu, fulong
creators_name: Zhang, Fangzhu
title: Metropolitanization through making ‘new metropolitan plans’ in China
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C04
divisions: F39
keywords: Metropolitan region, 
Metropolitan planning, 
Urban governance, 
City regionalism, 
China
note: © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
abstract: Although mega-city regions have attracted wide attention in China, recent ‘metropolitanization’ at the multi-city scale is poorly understood. To tackle the void, this paper examines the emergent ‘metropolitan plans’ (dushiquan guihua) since 2019 and identifies a paradigm shift in metropolitanization from ‘territorial urbanization’ to ‘multi-city regionalism’ in China. We find that 1) as a fuzzy and dynamic concept, the metropolitan region has been mainly employed as a policy object for state rationalities and has been upscaled from a city region scale to a multi-city scale; 2) regarding planning practices, the new metropolitan plans function as an overall collaborative framework to support priority tasks for city regionalism in a shorter term rather than formulating long-term spatial strategies; 3) as space of governance, the recent state-orchestrated metropolitan region reflects the newest round of state rescaling process to cope with domestic uneven development and urban issues through ‘urban unification’, and its materialization heavily relies on concrete cross-boundary projects delivery and coordination through soft governance. These findings not only provide conceptual clarity and relational understandings of the metropolitanization process but also exemplify the distinctiveness of the Chinese metropolitanization approach in terms of scalar logic, planning style, and associated governance mechanisms. This paper furthers the understanding of the divergence and diversity of metropolitan planning and governance practices in different political-economic circumstances.
date: 2024-01
date_type: published
publisher: Elsevier
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2023.102987
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2115364
doi: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2023.102987
lyricists_name: Wang, Weikai
lyricists_id: WWANH06
actors_name: Wang, Weikai
actors_id: WWANH06
actors_role: owner
funding_acknowledgements: 832845 [European Research Council]
full_text_status: public
publication: Habitat International
volume: 143
article_number: 102987
issn: 0197-3975
citation:        Wang, Weikai;    Wu, fulong;    Zhang, Fangzhu;      (2024)    Metropolitanization through making ‘new metropolitan plans’ in China.                   Habitat International , 143     , Article 102987.  10.1016/j.habitatint.2023.102987 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2023.102987>.       Green open access   
 
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