Wang, Ying;
Wu, Fulong;
(2025)
Micro-regeneration and participatory governance: a local social governance experiment in China.
Journal of Chinese Governance
10.1080/23812346.2025.2493988.
(In press).
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Abstract
This paper explores the transformation of urban redevelopment practices in China, focusing on participatory micro-regeneration in Qinghe, Beijing. These practices are part of a local social governance experiment aiming to improve living conditions in ageing neighbourhoods and promote social change by cultivating active citizens and governable communities. Drawing on interviews and participant observations in Qinghe, we examine how micro-regeneration projects were initiated, designed, implemented and maintained in local neighbourhoods. Community participation is a central theme of these projects, promoted by local authorities and experts to advocate social governance innovation. The findings highlight existing neighbourhood politics and multiple forms of agency, suggesting that community participation in Qinghe serves less as a mechanism of empowerment but more as a platform for coordinating diverse interests among different groups of residents, experts, and state officials. Despite facing tensions and contradictions, the state achieves its political goal of social governance experiment. However, the experiment did not achieve its original intention of community reorganisation.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Micro-regeneration and participatory governance: a local social governance experiment in China |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/23812346.2025.2493988 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/23812346.2025.2493988 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Micro-regeneration; community participation; social governance; experiment; Qinghe |
| 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/10207998 |
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