Wu, F;
(2017)
China's Emergent City-Region Governance: A New Form of State Spatial Selectivity through State-orchestrated Rescaling.
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
, 40
(6)
pp. 1134-1151.
10.1111/1468-2427.12437.
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Abstract
This article examines the emergence of city-region governance as a specific state spatial selectivity in post-reform China. The process has been driven by the state in response to the crisis of economic decentralization, and to vicious inter-city competition and uncoordinated development. As part of the recentralization of state power, the development of urban clusters (chengshiqun) as interconnected city-regions is now a salient feature of 'new urbanization' policy. I argue in this article that the Chinese city-region corresponds to specific logics of scale production. Economic globalization has led to the development of local economies and further created the need to foster 'regional competitiveness'. To cope with regulatory deficit at the regional level, three mechanisms have been orchestrated by the state: administrative annexation, spatial plan preparation and regional institution building, which reflect recent upscaling in post-reform governance.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | China's Emergent City-Region Governance: A New Form of State Spatial Selectivity through State-orchestrated Rescaling |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1111/1468-2427.12437 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12437 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © 2017 the author. international journal of urban and regional research published by John Wiley & Sons ltd under license by Urban Research Publications Limited. 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. |
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/1542956 |
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