Bordered and crossborder perspectives on sustainable development

Spatial planning in Hengqin, China

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ID11458232
AutoresPing Su (0000-0001-8028-2092, South China University of Technology), Adam Grydehøj (0000-0002-9149-9497, South China University of Technology, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen150
Páginas105014
Fecha de publicación2024-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0264-2751 • E-ISSN: 1873-6084
EditorialElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.cities.2024.105014
OpenAlexW4394840059
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas58

Challenges to social, economic, and environmental sustainability are global in scale, yet sustainable development policies must be implemented locally. There has been a tendency for sustainable urbanism projects to engage in the conspicuous sustainability of spatially bounded and highly visible sustainability achievements, rather than spatially expansive, long-term achievements. China's complex system of multilevel governance encourages policy experimentation, but it is also frequently productive of entrepreneurial urbanism and intercity competition. This paper analyses spatial planning documents concerning Hengqin (Zhuhai Municipality, Guangdong Province), an island adjacent to Macao SAR, to show how the ambitions for a new-build district's contributions to sustainable development have become more spatially expansive and ambitious over time. This has occurred alongside changes in project leadership (from city, to provincial, to central government leadership) as well as a deepening awareness of the Greater Bay Area as a region for crossborder policymaking. The paper argues that crossborder perspectives are vital for genuine sustainable development but face certain obstacles in relation to the sites at which policy decisions are made

Business · China · Corporate governance · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Expansive · Geography · Government (linguistics · Political science · Politics · Spatial planning · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Urbanism · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Regional resilience and development · Urban Transport and Accessibility · Architecture · Ecology