| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 389 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Advances in Asian human-environmental research, 1879-7180 |
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Advances in Asian human-environmental research.
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| Contents |
The Pearl River Delta in Progressive Transformation / Uwe Altrock and Sonia Schoon -- Transforming into Megacities -- Second Metamorphosis? Urban Restructuring and Planning Responses in Guangzhou and Shenzhen in the Twenty-First Century / Mee Kam Ng and Jiang Xu -- The Influence of Regional Planning Administration on Local Development / Xiangming Ma -- Cross-Border Governance: The Merger of Guangzhou and Foshan / Xun Li and Ruitong Wu -- The Reorientation Toward Urban Regeneration -- Three Olds: Experimental Urban Restructuring with Chinese Characteristics, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in Comparison / Sonia Schoon -- Examining China's Urban Redevelopment: Land Types, Targeted Policies, and Public Participation / Lin Ye -- Economic Upgrading -- Maturing Governance Over Time: Groping for Economic Upgrading in Guangzhou's Zhongda Cloth Market / Sonia Schoon and Friederike Schröder -- Formal and Informal Economies in Guangzhou's Zhongda Cloth Market / Xiangdong Wan -- Regeneration of Derelict Industrial Sites in Guangzhou and Shenzhen / Uwe Altrock and Hang Ma -- The Evolution of Integrative Governance -- Gaming and Decision-Making: Urbanized Village Redevelopment in Guangzhou / Zhiqiang Zhuang -- Villagers' Participation in Mega-Urban Upgrading. Liede Village: Guangzhou's Pioneer / Xiaohong Tan and Sonia Schoon -- Elite Vision Before People: State Entrepreneurialism and the Limits of Participation / Hyun Bang Shin -- Public Open Space Between Appropriation and Marketing -- Parks as Soft Location Factors / Juan Zhao -- The Role of Public Space in the Upgrading of Manufacturing Sites / Qiang Cai, Tao Cai, Jibin Ren and Hongchun Liao -- The Role of Public Space in the Upgrading of Urbanized Villages / Katharina Wiethoff -- Conclusion -- Maturing Megacities: Lessons from the Pearl River Delta Experiences / Uwe Altrock and Sonia Schoon |
| Summary |
This edited volume covers the multiple changes concerning urban governance in the course of the progressive transformation of the Pearl River Delta mega-urban region in China. Looking at the megacities Guangzhou and Shenzhen, it analyzes the maturing of socio-economic, political and spatial structures after the first waves of economic globalization, political transformation, and their rapid expansion and urbanization. The initial claim and starting point of the book is the existence of a profound multidimensional shift in the coastal mega-urban region with a major tendency towards urban upgrading, economic restructuring and a clearly observable consolidation of political institutions. For the first time since the beginning of the reform and opening up after 1978, this has led to a stronger bias toward urban regeneration, an adaptive re-use of the building stock and an establishment of post-industrial knowledge-based creative industries. The book investigates these changes as a set of mutually dependent developments that have to be understood and analyzed in connection with one another. Thus, the backgrounds and underlying forces that shape physical restructuring in the developed urban cores of the mega-urban region and the ways in which the relevant actors and institutions are trying to both cope with and to influence each other are introduced here |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- China -- Pearl River Delta -- Growth
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
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Sciences de la terre.
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Environnement.
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Cities and towns -- Growth
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Economic history
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| SUBJECT |
Pearl River Delta (China) -- Economic conditions
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| Subject |
China -- Pearl River Delta
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Altrock, Uwe.
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Schoon, Sonia
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| ISBN |
9789400766747 |
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9400766742 |
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9400766734 |
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9789400766730 |
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