Elite vision before people: state entrepreneurialism and the limits of participation

Shin, Hyun Bang ORCID: 0000-0002-1103-9221 (2014) Elite vision before people: state entrepreneurialism and the limits of participation. In: Altrock, Uwe and Schoon, Sonia, (eds.) Maturing Megacities: the Pearl River Delta in Progressive Transition. Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Dortrecht, Germany, pp. 267-285. ISBN 9789400766730

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This edited volume covers the multiple changes concerning urban governance in the course of the progressive transformation of the Pearl River Delta mega-urban region in China. Looking at the megacities Guangzhou and Shenzhen, it analyzes the maturing of socio-economic, political and spatial structures after the first waves of economic globalization, political transformation, and their rapid expansion and urbanization. The initial claim and starting point of the book is the existence of a profound multidimensional shift in the coastal mega-urban region with a major tendency towards urban upgrading, economic restructuring and a clearly observable consolidation of political institutions. For the first time since the beginning of the reform and opening up after 1978, this has led to a stronger bias toward urban regeneration, an adaptive re-use of the building stock and an establishment of post-industrial knowledge-based creative industries. The book investigates these changes as a set of mutually dependent developments that have to be understood and analyzed in connection with one another. Thus, the backgrounds and underlying forces that shape physical restructuring in the developed urban cores of the mega-urban region and the ways in which the relevant actors and institutions are trying to both cope with and to influence each other are introduced here.

Item Type:	Book Section
Official URL:	http://www.springer.com/
Additional Information:	© 2014 Springer Science+Business Media
Divisions:	Geography & Environment Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DS Asia G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Date Deposited:	04 Oct 2012 08:49
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 17:43
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/46541

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