State dominance in urban redevelopment: beyond gentrification in urban China
Wu, Fulong. State dominance in urban redevelopment : beyond gentrification in urban China. Urban Affairs Review. Pré-publié en ligne le 27 octobre 2015. DOI : 0.1177/1078087415612930
This article will revisit Smith’s seminal argument that gentrification is a global urban strategy. The article pays attention to the role of the state and displacement during the process of redevelopment. Through an in-depth study of a dilapidated neighborhood with concentrated migrant population in Shanghai, it is revealed that state control is behind the deterioration of the neighborhood prior to its redevelopment. Inadequate services and poor housing conditions are undeniable. Informal development has been quickly realigned by state dominance. The self-building neighborhood is eventually replaced by state-sanctioned development projects. The article echoes the debate over displacement in the West and suggests that recent urban redevelopment in China has gone beyond both the sporadic middleclass return to the city and residential changes backed up by state actions, revealing hegemonic power of the state over spatial production. Through urban redevelopment, the state attempts to regularize informal areas into new production spaces for its revenue maximization.
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Chinese cities are emerging in multiple senses: They have created new physical spaces to accommodate the fast urbanization ofthe country but have also developed new properties and characteristics along with urban transformation. The novelty created byemerging cities in China is not easily covered by Western urban theory. This article examines the dynamism of Chinese urbantransformation, especially political economic changes vis-a-vis so-called neoliberalism, and spatial outcomes as diverse and contrasting spaces of formality and informality. Finally, this article speculates on implications for global urban studies.
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Monique Abud (30 novembre 2015). State dominance in urban redevelopment: beyond gentrification in urban China. ChinElectrodoc. Consulté le 12 décembre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/mqt1
