Participatory urban redevelopment in Chinese cities amid accelerated urbanization: Symbolic urban governance in globalizing Shanghai

《Participatory urban redevelopment in Chinese cities amid accelerated urbanization: Symbolic urban governance in globalizing Shanghai》

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作者: Zhumin Xu;George C. S. Lin

来源: JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.41,Issue6,P.756-775

语言: 英文

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作者单位: The University of Hong Kong

摘要: This research engages with ongoing theoretical enquiry into the nature and dynamics of public participation in urban redevelopment in a command economy undergoing marketization. The research investigates the actual practicing of community participation in housing requisition in Shanghai, its social and political underpinnings, and its impacts upon residents directly affected by housing requisition. This study argues that the notion of public interests is ambiguously defined and manipulated, whereas the actual rights and responsibilities among major stakeholders remain unchanged. Migrants are excluded from the decision-making process. Participatory urban redevelopment is found to be rhetorical and symbolic by nature. It is a tool for the municipal government to quicken the housing requisition process for economic development and avoid social unrests for career advancement. The findings of this research help identify a new path of theorization concerning state–society relations going beyond the state–market dynamism that has dominated the theory of neoliberal urbanism.Additional informationAuthor informationZhumin XuZhumin Xu received her doctoral degree from the University of New Orleans in Urban Studies. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include housing requisition involving public participation schemes, inner-city redevelopment, and local governance.George C. S. LinGeorge C. S. Lin is a Chair Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Red Capitalism in South China: Growth and Development of the Pearl River Delta (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997) and Developing China: Land, Politics, and Social Conditions (London: Routledge, 2009) and co-author of China’s Urban Space: Development Under Market Socialism (London: Routledge, 2007), as well as the author or co-author of many articles. His research interests include China’s urbanization, land management, and urban redevelopments.FundingThe work described in this article has been sponsored by the grants obtained from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong SAR (GRF 17614218 and CRF C7028-16G).AcknowledgmentsAn earlier version of this article was presented at the 2017 Urban Affairs Association Conference held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The authors are grateful to the editor and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. All usual disclaimers apply.