Wu, F;
Zhang, F;
Webster, C;
(2013)
Informality and the Development and Demolition of Urban Villages in the Chinese Peri-urban Area.
Urban Studies
, 50
(10)
1919 - 1934.
10.1177/0042098012466600.
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Abstract
The fate of Chinese urban villages (chengzhongcun) has recently attracted both research and policy attention. Two important unaddressed questions are: what are the sources of informality in otherwise orderly Chinese cities; and, will village redevelopment policy eliminate informality in the Chinese city? Reflecting on the long-established study of informal settlements and recent research on informality, it is argued that the informality in China has been created by the dual urban-rural land market and land management system and by an underprovision of migrant housing. The redevelopment of chengzhongcun is an attempt to eliminate this informality and to create more governable spaces through formal land development; but since it fails to tackle the root demand for unregulated living and working space, village redevelopment only leads to the replication of informality in more remote rural villages, in other urban neighbourhoods and, to some extent, in the redeveloped neighbourhoods. © 2012 Urban Studies Journal Limited.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Informality and the Development and Demolition of Urban Villages in the Chinese Peri-urban Area |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0042098012466600 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098012466600 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2012 Urban Studies Journal Limited. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm). |
| 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/1391859 |
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