Abstract
This paper examines the spatial transformation of Indian and Chinese cities with reference to prevailing gentrification and suburbanisation studies. Focusing on urban redevelopment and peripheral extension, the paper highlights how Indian and Chinese urban studies provide extensive analyses of demolition and displacement in urban renewal and redevelopment, peri-urbanisation, and mega urban projects in urban spatial extension. These studies, often developed by paying attention to specific Indian or Chinese urbanisation, add new narratives to gentrification and suburbanisation research and help to enhance our understanding of contemporary urban changes. Thinking about Indian and Chinese urban spatial transformation, these studies highlight that gentrification and suburbanisation are large research fields rather than defined concepts.
Highlights
Urban India and China have recently seen burgeoning empirical studies
With reference to welldeveloped gentrification and suburbanisation research, this paper identifies the characteristics of urban redevelopment and peripheral expansion in India and China, which can add new descriptions, vocabularies, and narratives to the evolving fields of gentrification and suburbanisation which are themselves becoming planetary
China has a larger capacity of political mobilisation and a stronger state, there is a complex scalar issue of the state itself (Kennedy, 2017), as shown in China’s economic devolution
Summary
Urban India and China have recently seen burgeoning empirical studies. A recent postcolonial turn in urban and regional studies began to see cities in the world through ‘worlding practices’ (Roy and Ong, 2011). Bhan (2019) argues that theory from the South must emerge from a practice as Southern and act as ‘theories of practice’. The development of special economic zones (Jenkins et al, 2014) and greenfield development in India (Kennedy and Sood, 2016) and large-scale new town development in China (Shen and Wu, 2017; Wu, 2018) are driven by the strategy of making world-class cities (Goldman, 2011; Roy and Ong, 2011).
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