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作者

Julie T. Miao;Nicholas A. Phelps;Tingting Lu;Cassandra C. Wang

来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.40,Issue10,P.1443-1466

语言

英文

关键字

Suburbanization,technoburbia,urban contradictions,featured towns,China,Hangzhou

作者单位

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

摘要

Set against the wider background of global suburbanization, this paper contributes to the emerging literature on the formation of technoburbia in China, and more importantly, the potential “urban contradictions” accompanying this process. Through a bottom-up empirical exploration of the Future Sci-tech City Corridor in Hangzhou and its embedded Featured Town initiative in particular, we observe how the future of technoburbia in China is by no means free from similar challenges in housing affordability and labor stratification. However, these contradictions are managed entirely differently in China. Nevertheless, the highly planned nature of China’s technoburbia also rubs up against political decentralization, demographic change and economic upgrading, implying significant trials and tribulations along the way.KEYWORDS: Suburbanization, technoburbia, urban contradictions, featured towns, China, HangzhouAcknowledgmentsWe would like to express our thanks to the editor and to referees for their timely and constructive comments on previous drafts of this paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.