A Green Leap Forward? Eco-State Restructuring and the Tianjin-Binhai Eco-City Model

I-Chun Catherine Chang, Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard

Regional Studies, 2016, vol. 50, issue 6, 929-943

Abstract: C hang I-C. C., L eitner H. and S heppard E. A green leap forward? Eco-state restructuring and the Tianjin-Binhai eco-city model. Regional Studies . China has experienced a remarkable explosion of designated eco-cities since the year 2000, with Tianjin-Binhai becoming the best-practice model. Embedded in broader political economic changes, shifting multi-scalar regimes of environmental governance have shaped this efflorescence. Applying eco-state restructuring, this paper argues that eco-city construction became a new strategic project after the 2000s, driven by central state-driven model cities and assessment initiatives. This also led to a very different kind of 'best practice' eco-city model: Tianjin-Binhai, a China-Singapore collaboration in which greenness is manufactured rather than adapted. Notwithstanding significant implementation problems, Tianjin-Binhai's status as best practice persists, raising questions about what it means to claim eco-city status.

Date: 2016
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