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- Title
Planning and its discontents: contradictions and continuities in remaking China's great cities, 1950–2010.
- Authors
LIANG, SAMUEL Y.
- Abstract
This article offers a theoretical overview of the urbanization legacy of China's great cities since 1949. It shows a persistent contradiction between ideology/planning and urban sprawl/cellular urbanism. The symbolic function of city planning reflects official ideology giving the city a unified formal structure, but the implementation of the city plan is compromised in the process of urban development. The state governance fragments Chinese urban society into emplaced groups. This social division takes effect through the spatial division of various compounds that negotiate with rather than conform to city planning. Using a case-study of Guangzhou's urban development, the article shows how the state-led spatial practices continue in the post-socialist era and how a new kind of developmental ideology informs urban developments.
- Subjects
CHINA; GUANGZHOU (China); URBAN planning; URBAN growth; CITIES &; towns; HISTORY of urbanization; URBANIZATION; CHINESE Communist Party; POLITICAL change; CHINESE politics &; government, 1949-; HISTORY; GROWTH
- Publication
Urban History, 2013, Vol 40, Issue 3, p530
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926812000752