The Right to Envision the City? The Emerging Vision Conflicts in Redeveloping Historic Nanjing, China

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6404047
AutoresHao Chen (0000-0002-8873-8266, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China), Lili Wang (0000-0002-0082-8487, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China, autor de correspondencia), Paul Waley (0000-0002-2405-2353, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK)
Año2020
Volumen56
Número6
Páginas1746-1778
Fecha de publicación2020-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaUrban Affairs Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1078087419847769
OpenAlexW2944189528
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas31
Referencias citadas53

This article presents a new trend in urban politics in China, that is, the intertwined conflicts of three competing visions—entrepreneurial redevelopment, historic conservation, and community conservation—in the redevelopment of historic areas. Through an in-depth case study of the struggles around the redevelopment of historic Nanjing, we outline three key points. First, historic conservation has emerged as a strong urban vision competing against entrepreneurial redevelopment in historic districts, since the early 2000s. Second, local residents have tactically employed the discourse of historic conservation to negotiate their own visions of community conservation, yet these have largely failed since the major concern of the elite vision of historic conservation is the preservation of material structures rather than communities living in them. Third, and in conclusion, this article calls for a more inclusive vision of historic community conservation and more attention to the “envisioning” right of ordinary residents in Chinese urban politics

China · Elite · Environmental planning · Geography · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Redevelopment · Sociology · Urban regeneration · Vision · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies