Transitional Property Rights and Local Developmental History in China

Daniel Abramson
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Daniel Abramson: Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington, 448F Gould Hall, Box 355740, College of Built Environments, Seattle, Washington, 98195-5740, USA, abramson@u.washington.edu

Urban Studies, 2011, vol. 48, issue 3, 553-568

Abstract: Among the societies that are moving from a centrally planned economy with weak property rights towards a market-oriented economy with stronger and more privatised property rights, China is undergoing an especially rapid and extensive urbanisation that obscures the diversity and relevance of local pre-Reform property arrangements. Official discourse emphasises the formalisation, clarification and, to some extent, the privatisation of property rights in the name of overall societal development and gradual integration with the global economy. In local informal, popular practice and discourse, however, the invocation of property rights reflects the continuing political relevance of both revolutionary and traditional notions of rights to urban space that challenge a unitary, linear view of the development process.

Date: 2011
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