 The emergence of a multiscalar growth regime and scalar tension: the politics of urban development in Songdo New City, South KoreaHaeRan Shin, Se Hoon Park and Jung Won Sonn () Environment and Planning C, 2015, vol. 33, issue 6, 1618-1638 Abstract: This study approaches the politics of urban development from within the framework of the emergence of a new multiscalar growth regime and the path dependence of the Korean developmental state. Through a case study of the Songdo New City development in South Korea, this study looks at how the scalar division of labor among various actors has interacted with the emergence of a multiscalar growth regime. We focus on the logic by which different scales of governmental and nongovernmental actors cooperate and, at the same time, compete with one another for authority over economic development. Our findings demonstrate, first, that the new regime resulted from the emergence of downward state rescaling to the local scale and of private business as a key actor. Second, the regime actors have been involved in scalar tensions and have constantly negotiated the scalar divisions of labor among them. This research provides a contextualized example of a spatiotemporal logic in which statehood has been transformed into a network. Keywords: growth regime; the politics of urban development; rescaling; Songdo New City; scalar tension (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:envirc:v:33:y:2015:i:6:p:1618-1638 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Environment and Planning C |
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