Green Space Production as a State Project in Urban China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8962062 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Handuo Deng (0000-0003-2177-1106, Bartlett School of Planning University College London London UK, corresponding author), Fulong Wu (0000-0003-4938-6066, Bartlett School of Planning University College London London UK), Fangzhu Zhang (0000-0002-8975-5324, Bartlett School of Planning University College London London UK) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/tran.70054 |
| OpenAlex | W7115011747 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 72 |
This study investigates the production of urban spaces shaped by political intentions that transcend capitalist imperatives. We examine the politics of developing Chengdu's greenway project by operationalising state entrepreneurialism—a perspective of territorial logic and capitalist logic in urban governance—through strategic embeddedness and tactical mobilisation. Strategic embeddedness refers to the institutional integration of the market into the state apparatus to achieve the state's strategic goals, while tactical mobilisation refers to the constrained manoeuvres employed by state agencies to mobilise external interests. In Chengdu, state actions strategically embedded market finance into the ecological project of political significance through large‐scale state–capital coordination and tactically mobilised a pro‐growth coalition for financialised housing development. The state politics differ markedly from the new urban politics that mainly serve global mobile capital. In this context, capitalist logic becomes secondary to the contextualised territorial logic underpinning China's ecological agendas. This study contributes to the literature on entrepreneurial cities and state‐led ecological spaces by foregrounding the intentional dimension of statecraft and advancing state entrepreneurialism as a conceptual and analytical framework
Dimension (graph theory · Embeddedness · Foregrounding · Politics · Production (economics · Space (punctuation) · State (computer science · Underpinning · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Urban Planning and Governance
Redesigning the State, Reorienting State Power, and Rethinking the State
Central–Local Relations
Spatial Fixes, Temporal Fixes and Spatio‐ Temporal Fixes
Market in State
Green Gentrification
Territorial Urbanization and the Party-State in China
The state acts through the market
Varieties of urban entrepreneurialism
The new urban managerialism in geopolitical context
Regional governance for greenways in China
Entrepreneurial urbanism
Statecraft at the frontier of capitalism
Actually existing state entrepreneurialism
Municipal statecraft
Promotion-driven local states and governing cities in action—re-reading China's urban entrepreneurialism from a local perspective
Learning to be an urban state
Urban agriculture and the sustainability fix in Vancouver and Detroit
Of scale and discourse
Beyond Growth Machine Politics
China's Eco‐Civilisation, Climate Leviathan, and Hobbesian Energy Transition
Negotiating Green Space with Landed Interests
Institutional change and diversity in the transfer of land development rights in China
Revisiting urban governance in China
Urban green boosterism and city affordability
From entrepreneurial to managerial statecraft
Planning centrality, market instruments
Seeing Red Over Green
The (Post-) Socialist Entrepreneurial City as a State Project
Emerging spaces of neoliberal urbanism in China
Constructing the narrative of the sustainability fix
Entrepreneurs beyond neoliberalism
Changing roles of the state in the financialization of urban development through chengtou in China
Whatever happened to municipal radicalism
Contested geopolitics of distribution in the city‐region‐building
A culture‐led approach to understanding energy transitions in China
Putting financialisation in its financial context
The rise of Chengdu between geopolitics and geo‐economics
Scalar politics of urban sustainability
Banking Spatially on the Future
Turning land into assets
Participatory micro-regeneration
Political ecology II
Reconstructing scale
Ecological civilization
Provincializing Urban Political Ecology
Environmentalism and Chinese urban order
Environmental statecraft and changing spatial politics
The socio-ecological fix by multi-scalar states
The state project of crisis management
Towards the socio-ecological fix
De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks
The Eco-Scalar Fix
The coming of environmental authoritarianism
Greenest cities? The (post-)politics of new urban environmental regimes
Neoliberal urbanism, public space, and the greening of the growth machine
The environmentalization of urban entrepreneurialism
Scalar Politics and Uneven Accessibility to Intercity Railway in the Pearl River Delta, China
Making Ecology Developmental
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |