Urban Governance In China Research Articles

Urban governance in cross-border coalitions: The case of the Jiangyin Economic Development Zone in Jingjiang, China

Joint industrial development zones have emerged among cities in the Yangtze River Delta region in recent years. Given that such zones involve collaboration between different authorities, this has implications for the practice of urban governance in China. This article examines these processes in relation to the Jiangyin Economic Development Zone in Jingjiang (JZJ) using debates around urban growth coalitions. Two categories of actors, different levels of local government and business sectors, are identified and their interactions in coalition-building are analysed in detail. After tracing the process of coalition formation, this paper argues that growth coalitions can form between two cities involving processes above the urban scale in a globalising era. In addition, a local government–big business coalition, similar to its Western counterparts, is dominating industrial zone construction within Chinese urban growth.

Social Space and Governance in Urban China (review)

Social Space and Governance in Urban China (review)

Building ‘Community’: New Strategies of Governance in Urban China

Under the planned economy China's urban population was largely immobile and governed through the socialist workunit (danwei). Market reforms begun in the 1980s have culminated in the last decade with a dramatic decline of the state-sector and the emergence of a more mobile, heterogeneous and economically independent urban population. In rendering the old system obsolete, these trends have led the Chinese government to rethink its strategies for urban governance. At the turn of the millennium, a new campaign to ‘build communities’ was launched throughout the nation with the objective of establishing the residential ‘community’ as the new basic unit of urban governance. This paper explores the logic behind this policy innovation and analyzes the techniques adopted to operationalize ‘community governance’.

Social Space and Governance in Urban China: The Danwei System from Origins to Reform. David Bray

<i>Social Space and Governance in Urban China: The Danwei System from Origins to Reform</i>. David Bray

Social space and governance in urban China: the danwei system from origins to reform

Table of Contents for Social Space and Governance in Urban China List of Figures and Table Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Walls and Compounds: Toward a Genealogy of Danwei Spatial Practice 3. Modernity and Social Organization Before 1949: The Emergence of the Proto-Danwei 4. From the Government of Space to the Spatialization of Government: The Emergence of Revolutionary Spatial Practice 5. Governing Urban China: Labor, Welfare, and the Danwei 6. Danwei Space 7. Reforming the Danwei 8. Conclusions Notes Glossary Bibliography Index