Governing Urban Development in China: Critical Urban Studies [Hardcover]

The book investigates urban development and governance in China and introduces China perspectives to the understanding of governing urban development in the 21st century.

Introduction

1. Governance: theories and perspectives

2. State entrepreneurialism: historical formation and practices

3. Planning: state centrality and political mandates

4.?Financialization: the long shadow of the state

5.?Urban redevelopment: beyond the dynamics of the growth machine

6.?Innovation: a hybrid national indigenous model

7.?Environment: the socio-ecological fix under ecological civilization

Conclusion

The book investigates urban development and governance in China and introduces China perspectives to the understanding of governing urban development in the 21st century.

Building upon a rich and burgeoning literature on China, the book explains major changes in governance, offers a well-synthesized account of state-centered governance, and provides in-depth discussions on urban governance, city and regional planning, financing and financialization, urban redevelopment, local economic development and innovation, and environmental governance. The book bridges theoretical concepts in critical urban studies and empirical research on China and thus depicts a fuller picture of changing and variegated urban governance in the contemporary world. The book theorizes Chinese urban governance from the ground up and derives a concept of state entrepreneurialism as a framework for narrating urban governance in China. Following this framework, each chapter begins with a brief introduction to key concepts in urban geography and then depicts the urban development process on the ground in China. Then, the chapters discuss these concepts and explanations because lÓÌ