China's Emergent City-Region Governance
A New Form of State Spatial Selectivity through State-orchestrated Rescaling
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4382016 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fulong Wu (0000-0003-4938-6066, Fulong Wu, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, Central House 14 Upper Woburn Place, London WC1H 0N UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1134-1151 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2427.12437 |
| OpenAlex | W2735975625 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 181 |
| References cited | 60 |
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
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