China's local entrepreneurial state and new urban spaces : downtown redevelopment in Ningbo / Han Zhang.

Author
Zhang, Han (Of Dui wai jing ji mao yi da xue (China)) [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
ix, 238 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

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    New perspectives on Chinese politics and society [More in this series]
    Summary note
    In this book, the author seeks to understand China's urban redevelopment from the theoretical perspective of the local entrepreneurial state. China's rapid socio-economic transformations since 1978 have been in large part attributed to China's state transformations. The author closely investigates Ningbo's two downtown redevelopment projects by conducting ethnographic fieldwork and documentary research. It is found that the local entrepreneurial state deploys local state enterprises to undertake strategic urban redevelopment projects, organizes high-profile city/district marketing campaigns in entrepreneurial manners, and develops corporatist intermediations with local business owners for collaborative urban governance. Yet the local entrepreneurial state is multi-layered, with the municipal and district authorities sometimes disagreeing, conflicting, and bargaining with each other. Meanwhile, the relationship between spaces and their users, as well as that between various space users, constantly changes. All these players and their interactions constitute "spatial politics", or the story of conflicts, struggles, negotiations, and collaborations in urban governance. This work, based on six months of fieldwork, will appeal to scholars in the social sciences and experts in Asian Studies.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index.
    Contents
    • The "city operator" and the Tiany Square redevelopment project
    • Ningbo's historic North Bank
    • The redevelopment of the Laowaitan
    • The new urban spaces of the Laowaitian and the coping strategies.
    ISBN
    • 9781137599025 ((hardback ; : alkaline paper))
    • 1137599022 ((hardback ; : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2016950372
    OCLC
    967712356
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