TY - JOUR
AU - Yuan, Feng
AB - Ubiquitous in fast-urbanising China, land-driven urban growth is increasingly inter-urban in nature – a trend that is underexplored in the literature. Grounded in a conceptual framework concerning the rescaling of the land regime, this study probes the unfolding land development processes of city-regionalism. Key findings of an examination of the Shenzhen–Shanwei Special Cooperation Zone in the Pearl River Delta are as follows: land regime rescaling is an emergent driving force for city-region making in China; the rescaled land regime centres on uneven capacities among the states of cooperating cities and benefit sharing (immediate land-related profit and potential long-term profit); provincial government engagement is fundamental to legitimatising this contested process; the rescaled land regime has been orchestrated by state interests in land development, rather than business interests released by marketisation, spawning a ‘stretching’ state territoriality of the central city. This article furthers the field’s understanding of a ‘world of city-regionalisms’ through a situated account of emerging city-regionalism characterised by land development in the Chinese context.
TI - Rescaling of the land regime in the making of city-regions: A case study of China’s Pearl River Delta
JF - Urban Studies: An International Journal of Research in Urban Studies
DO - 10.1177/00420980221101781
DA - 2023-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/rescaling-of-the-land-regime-in-the-making-of-city-regions-a-case-vxjWp07tnB
SP - 483
EP - 500
VL - 60
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -