Zhang, Fangzhu;
Wu, Fulong;
(2024)
Green state entrepreneurialism: Building the park-city in Chengdu, China.
Transaction on Planning and Urban Research
, 3
(3)
pp. 183-201.
10.1177/27541223241253231.
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Abstract
This paper uses the perspective of state entrepreneurialism to explore China’s environmental governance. The perspective illustrates how the Chinese state maintains its centrality, combining environmentalism and developmentalism while deploying flexible market development tools. This paper examines the Chengdu park-city model, an exemplar President Xi Jinping endorsed and widely emulated in China. The model combines the development of industrial and ecological spaces. It aims to deliver the central government’s vision for ecological civilisation and the local government’s economic development strategy. The development tools include land consolidation, financial mobilisation and an economic strategy that attempts to introduce ‘urban scenes’ into ecological spaces. This ecologically oriented development approach is more state-centred, contrasting with the neoliberal green growth machine.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Green state entrepreneurialism: Building the park-city in Chengdu, China |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/27541223241253231 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/27541223241253231 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2024. his article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Environmental governance, green infrastructure, ecological civilisation, state entrepreneurialism, Chengdu |
| 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/10191732 |
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