Chung, CKL;
Zhang, F;
Wu, F;
(2018)
Negotiating Green Space with Landed Interests: The Urban Political Ecology of Greenway in the Pearl River Delta, China.
Antipode
, 50
(4)
pp. 891-909.
10.1111/anti.12384.
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Abstract
Land-centred urbanisation has precipitated shortage of green space in Chinese cities. However, in the Pearl River Delta, an ambitious greenway system has recently managed to flourish. It is intriguing to ask how this has become possible. Informed by the perspective of urban political ecology, this paper finds that the greenway project in the Pearl River Delta represents a set of politically realistic endeavours to alleviate urban green space shortage by adapting to, rather than challenging, powerful landed interests. Three interlocking dimensions about land-municipal land quota, rural land use claims, and real estate development-have influenced why, where and how greenways have been created. Based on these findings, we argue that research on China's politics of urban sustainability necessarily needs to understand the country's land politics.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Negotiating Green Space with Landed Interests: The Urban Political Ecology of Greenway in the Pearl River Delta, China |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/anti.12384 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12384 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2018 The Author. Antipode published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Antipode Foundation Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Urban political ecology; urban sustainability; green space; greenway; land development; China |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10043477 |
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