Deng, Handuo;
Wu, Fulong;
Zhang, Fangzhu;
(2025)
Green Space Production as a State Project in Urban China.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
, Article e70054. 10.1111/tran.70054.
(In press).
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Abstract
This study investigates the production of urban spaces shaped by political intentions that transcend capitalist imperatives. We examine the politics of developing Chengdu's greenway project by operationalising state entrepreneurialism—a perspective of territorial logic and capitalist logic in urban governance—through strategic embeddedness and tactical mobilisation. Strategic embeddedness refers to the institutional integration of the market into the state apparatus to achieve the state's strategic goals, while tactical mobilisation refers to the constrained manoeuvres employed by state agencies to mobilise external interests. In Chengdu, state actions strategically embedded market finance into the ecological project of political significance through large‐scale state–capital coordination and tactically mobilised a pro‐growth coalition for financialised housing development. The state politics differ markedly from the new urban politics that mainly serve global mobile capital. In this context, capitalist logic becomes secondary to the contextualised territorial logic underpinning China's ecological agendas. This study contributes to the literature on entrepreneurial cities and state‐led ecological spaces by foregrounding the intentional dimension of statecraft and advancing state entrepreneurialism as a conceptual and analytical framework.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Green Space Production as a State Project in Urban China |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/tran.70054 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.70054 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | 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. © 2025 The Author(s). Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers). |
| Keywords: | Chengdu | ecological governance | state entrepreneurialism | statecraft | territorial logic | urban development |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS 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/10219220 |
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