Zhang, F;
Chung, CKL;
Yin, Z;
(2019)
Green infrastructure for China's new urbanisation: A case study of greenway development in Maanshan.
Urban Studies
10.1177/0042098018822965.
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Abstract
China’s recent environmental turn in urban development has been marked by a rush of urban green projects. Many city governments have lately focused on green infrastructure of a specific kind – the greenway. This paper provides a preliminary assessment of the contributions of greenways to a new, environmentally benign form of urbanisation advocated by the central government. Through a case study of the city of Maanshan, it reveals that Chinese greenways are not just a sustainability fix for the economy’s sake, as many urban green projects in China tend to be conceived. Although they are far from being effective in stimulating tourism, they can promote urban liveability beyond the symbolic and lend material support to active travel. These findings endorse an analytical approach that gives equal emphasis to both the physical and political nature of emerging green infrastructure initiatives to more fully appreciate the logics and functions in their ongoing popularity.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Green infrastructure for China's new urbanisation: A case study of greenway development in Maanshan |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0042098018822965 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098018822965 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © Urban Studies Journal Limited 2019. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Green infrastructure, greenways, sustainability fix, urban China, new urbanisation |
| 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/10064606 |
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