Adding new narratives to the urban imagination: An introduction to ‘New directions of urban studies in China’

Fulong Wu

Urban Studies, 2020, vol. 57, issue 3, 459-472

Abstract: Rapid urban development in China provides rich cases for urban research. Current urban studies in China are heavily influenced by an urban imagination embedded in the West. Using the cases of land management and environmental governance, social transformation and the spatial and regional dimensions of urbanisation, this article attempts to rethink some surprising findings from empirical research in Chinese cities and to contribute to theoretical understandings of urbanisation beyond contextual particularities. Following the narrative of ‘planning centrality, market instruments’ in China, this article highlights the political logic behind managing growth and environmental governance, social differentiation produced by interwoven state and market forces and new geographies of Chinese cities beyond the economic-centred imagination.

Keywords: Chinese development; environmental sustainability; housing; migration; politics; urban China; ä¸­å›½å ‘å±•; çŽ¯å¢ƒå ¯æŒ ç»­æ€§; ä½ æˆ¿; 移民; 政治; 中国城市 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098019898137

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