Ecological citizenship and a plan for sustainable development

Shannon May

City, 2008, vol. 12, issue 2, 237-244

Abstract: In a small rural village in the mountains of Northeastern China, a transnational conglomerate is building an internationally lauded 'prototype’ for rural urbanization in China. More than a master plan for sustainable development, Huangbaiyu is representative of the new power relations and claims of ecological citizenship that acceptance of the dynamics of global warming generates. Four hundred families are to be relocated and their lives radically altered to determine if rural populations can be allowed urban privileges, without putting the 'planet in peril’. Despite its promise of equity, the rationality that has made William McDonough’s master plan for sustainable development in China internationally lauded is the same logic that ensures that existing resource distribution inequalities continue.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1080/13604810802168117

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