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作者

Mi Tang;Xiaolong Luo;Wanyun Ying

来源

HABITAT INTERNATIONAL,Vol.121,P.102518

语言

英文

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作者单位

School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University, 210093, Nanjing, China;School of Geography, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK;School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University, 210093, Nanjing, China;School of Geography, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK;Dr Daniel Ibrahim Dabara School of the Built Environment, Real Estate Programme, Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom;Department of Estate Management, Federal Polytechnic Ede, Osun State, Nigeria;Department of Geography, Environment and Geo-Information, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel;Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Bournemouth University, BH12 5BB, United Kingdom;Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University, Princetonlaan 8a, 3584 CB, Utrecht, the Netherlands;Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 73 East Beijing Road, Nanjing, 210008, China;Urban Geographies/Centre for Urban Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, 1018 WV, Amsterdam, Netherlands;Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, United Kingdom;The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, United Kingdom;School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, 2 Southeast University Road, Jiangning District, Nanjing, 211189, China;National School of Development and Policy, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, China;Business School, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

摘要

City-regionalism has been manipulated as the primary strategy in China to enhance the competitiveness of local authorities. However, as local governments sometimes fail to share a common goal favourable to their interest, city-regionalism faces various problems. This article focuses on multi-level governance (MLG) at the sub-national scale within the city region and its influence on the city-regionalisation. By revealing the process and spatial outcome of cross-boundary integration in the Shanghai City Region (SHCR), this study discovers that the city regionalisation of SHCR has undergone three stages of evolution, resulting in the current uneven integration in the peripheries manifested in economic, social and spatial dimensions. By investigating the motivations behind inter-jurisdictional and inter-scalar cooperation among local governments based on the MLG theory, this study concludes that the pursuit for the economic spill-over can be distinctly identified from the provincial to the county level governments. During the process of city-regionalisation, multi-scalar governance and inter-jurisdictional interaction were adopted by the sub-national governments to pursue the options that favour the interests of each side. However, these seemingly harmonious initiatives have not led to collaboration and cooperation among local agencies. Nevertheless, they have instead induced contested strategies manipulated to seek the best interests of each side whereby conflicts and negotiation have emerged and reflected on spatial shaping towards uneven integration. During this process, the essential role of the provincial governments engaged in MLG in city regionalisation are highlighted.