Resilient governance under asymmetric power structure: The case of Enning Road Regeneration Project in Guangzhou, China

《Resilient governance under asymmetric power structure: The case of Enning Road Regeneration Project in Guangzhou, China》

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关键字: Resilient governance;Asymmetric power structure;Urban regeneration;Urban politics

作者单位: School of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University, China;School of Architecture, Hunan University, China;Peking University, Shenzhen Graduate School, China;Architectural Design and Research Institute of Guangdong Province, China;School of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University, China;School of Architecture, Hunan University, China;Peking University, Shenzhen Graduate School, China;Architectural Design and Research Institute of Guangdong Province, China

摘要: This study introduces ideas from political science to investigate urban politics under asymmetric power structures, which, as a crucial political context, have not been emphasised sufficiently in the literature. Such a study reveals a new understanding of urban politics in Chinese urban regeneration, a resilient relationship between social demand and governmental response that comes from asymmetric power structures and can strengthen such structures. This investigation is based on the changing policies and practices of the Enning Road Regeneration Project in Guangzhou, China, since 2006. Three main research findings have been displayed: 1) a mode of resilient governance with adaptive purposes, flexible patterns and responsive mechanisms—the reactive pre-emption mechanism—in urban regeneration in China; 2) the dialectic relationship between resilient governance and asymmetric power structures; and 3) the preconditions for producing resilient governance under asymmetric power structures. On the basis of our empirical evidence and theoretical analyses, the research perspective we call ‘resilient governance under asymmetric power structures’ has been constructed as a bridge between formerly separate fields in political science and urban governance. The resilient asymmetric power model has been established to reveal the political nature of governance with more resilience and asymmetric power compared with other power models.