Rescaling of the land regime in the making of city-regions: A case study of China’s Pearl River Delta

Xianchun Zhang, Yi Li, Changchang Zhou, Xiaofan Luan and Feng Yuan
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Xianchun Zhang: Zhejiang University, China
Yi Li: Hohai University, China
Changchang Zhou: Nanjing Normal University, China
Xiaofan Luan: Wuhan University, China
Feng Yuan: Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Science, China

Urban Studies, 2023, vol. 60, issue 3, 483-500

Abstract: Ubiquitous in fast-urbanising China, land-driven urban growth is increasingly inter-urban in nature – a trend that is underexplored in the literature. Grounded in a conceptual framework concerning the rescaling of the land regime, this study probes the unfolding land development processes of city-regionalism. Key findings of an examination of the Shenzhen–Shanwei Special Cooperation Zone in the Pearl River Delta are as follows: land regime rescaling is an emergent driving force for city-region making in China; the rescaled land regime centres on uneven capacities among the states of cooperating cities and benefit sharing (immediate land-related profit and potential long-term profit); provincial government engagement is fundamental to legitimatising this contested process; the rescaled land regime has been orchestrated by state interests in land development, rather than business interests released by marketisation, spawning a ‘stretching’ state territoriality of the central city. This article furthers the field’s understanding of a ‘world of city-regionalisms’ through a situated account of emerging city-regionalism characterised by land development in the Chinese context.

Keywords: city-regionalism; land regime; Pearl River Delta; provincial government; regional cooperation; 城市区域化; 土地制度; ç 三角; çœ çº§æ”¿åºœ; åŒºåŸŸå ˆä½œ (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/00420980221101781

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