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Shrinking Cities In China
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Author : Ying Long
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-03-15
Shrinking Cities In China written by Ying Long and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-15 with Social Science categories.
This book offers an essential introduction to the phenomenon of shrinking cities in China, highlighting several case studies, qualitative and quantitative methods, and planning responses. As an emerging topic in urbanizing China, cities experiencing population loss have begun attracting increasing attention. All chapters of the book were contributed by leading researchers on the subject in China. Richly illustrated with photographs for a better visual understanding of the topic, the book will benefit a broad readership, ranging from researchers and students of urban planning, urban geography, urban economics, urban sociology and urban design, to practitioners in the areas of urban planning and design.
Shrinking Cities In China
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Author : Ying Long
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Shrinking Cities In China written by Ying Long and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Urban-rural migration categories.
This book offers an essential introduction to the phenomenon of shrinking cities in China, highlighting several case studies, qualitative and quantitative methods, and planning responses. As an emerging topic in urbanizing China, cities experiencing population loss have begun attracting increasing attention. All chapters of the book were contributed by leading researchers on the subject in China. Richly illustrated with photographs for a better visual understanding of the topic, the book will benefit a broad readership, ranging from researchers and students of urban planning, urban geography, urban economics, urban sociology and urban design, to practitioners in the areas of urban planning and design.
Chinese Shrinking Cities And The State
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Author : Ting Jin (Ph. D. in geography)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Chinese Shrinking Cities And The State written by Ting Jin (Ph. D. in geography) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Shrinking cities categories.
Shrinking cities refer to densely populated urban areas experiencing population losses, economic difficulties, and consequential social problems. Even though shrinking cities have gained increasing attention from policymakers and academic researchers around the world, the stories of urban shrinkage in China have been ignored and obscured by the dazzling urbanization and modernization processes during the past 40 years. Meanwhile, theories and management strategies of urban shrinkage in the western context might not be applicable to Chinese shrinking cities, as urban development in China has been under the influence of an interventionist state, and research on shrinking cities in China is still at its infant stage. The goal of this dissertation research investigates the impact of the state on Chinese shrinking cities at three geographical scales through three studies. The first study is a national-level study, which examines which prefecture-level cities shrank from 2011 to 2015 and the influence of central state interventions on urban shrinkage. This study identifies 76 cities with a declined population and 36 cities that simultaneously suffer from more than 1% population losses and below-average GDP growth. The results of logit regression models show that China is not exceptional in terms of what causes urban shrinkage. The second study examines the phenomenon of urban shrinkage at the regional level, providing a comprehensive analysis of the Northeast Revitalization Strategy (NRS) and assessing the development of Northeast cities under policy efforts. This study finds that from 2003 to present, the emphasis of the NRS has shifted from short term tax release and financial aids to industrial restructuring, and from the public to the private sector. While most Northeast cities enjoyed growth during the first period of the NRS (2003-2009), economic downturn and population losses are evident in the second period (2009-2016). Meanwhile, the intercity inequality of Northeast cities by per capita GDP demonstrates a downward trend. The third study is a local-level ethnographic case study of Anshan, Liaoning Province. This study shows that the story of shrinking cities in China is not simply of abandonment, as giant State Owned Enterprises will not shut down or move away and the retired workers in these cities are protected by a rudimentary but still functioning social security system. It also reveals multiple dimensions of inequality in the process of SOE reform and urban shrinkage, and between the former socialist workers and rural workers. The landscape of Chinese shrinking cities is not featured with housing abandonment but the waiting-for-demolition residential buildings, the put-on-hold construction projects, and the urban space packed with aged residents. Overall, this dissertation finds that the Chinese state’s preferential policies and the dominance of SOEs in urban economies is not the major cause of urban shrinkage in China, but the state and SOEs have a strong influence on how shrinkage is perceived and managed in Chinese shrinking cities.
Planning For Shrinking Cities In China
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Author : Wenshi Yang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Planning For Shrinking Cities In China written by Wenshi Yang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
Governance And Leadership In Shrinking Cities
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Author : Stanisław Mazur
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-08-24
Governance And Leadership In Shrinking Cities written by Stanisław Mazur and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-24 with Business & Economics categories.
The aim of this publication is to look in depth at depopulation - a trend that is affecting an increasing number of cities worldwide. It has recently become a critical issue with a range of detrimental social, economic, spatial, and financial consequences. However, attempts by central and local governments to combat depopulation have yet to yield satisfactory results. Compelling evidence suggests that one of the reasons for this state of affairs is that the role of local (urban) leadership in devising solutions, mobilizing resources, and creating networks to address the problem has been underestimated. Moreover, according to the authors of this monograph, there is a significant positive correlation between urban leadership and the ability to effectively respond to and counteract the negative effects of depopulation. Without an understanding of the impact of urban leadership on the ability to address the negative consequences of urban depopulation, it is impossible to pursue effective public policies in this regard. This book presents a novel approach to explaining the ability of cities to combat depopulation through the prism of urban leadership quality. It compares domestic empirical research findings with international case studies, and offers a comprehensive review of valuable practices to counter urban shrinkage and depopulation, from both academic and practical perspectives. Further, the book provides a new interpretation of the processes associated with these trends. The magnitude of the phenomenon in question, the negative spatial, economic, and social consequences, as well as the relatively low effectiveness of policies aimed at its mitigation, will make this book an invaluable guide for researchers, and students from a wide range of disciplines including urban studies, economics, public management, leadership studies, local government, climate change and energy transition and urban movements. The audience will also comprise of policymakers and urban experts such as sociologists, planners, social geographers, economists, and architects.
Reinventing The Chinese City
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Author : Richard Hu
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2023-10-10
Reinventing The Chinese City written by Richard Hu and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-10 with Political Science categories.
Since the late 1970s, China has undergone perhaps the most sweeping process of urbanization ever witnessed. This is typically understood as a story of growth, encompassing rapid development and economic dynamism alongside environmental degradation and social dislocation. However, over the past decade, China’s leaders have claimed that the country’s urbanization has entered a new stage that prioritizes “quality.” What does China’s new urban vision entail, and what does the future hold in store? Richard Hu unpacks recent trends in urban planning and development to explore the making and imagining of the contemporary Chinese city. He focuses on three key concepts—the “green revolution,” “smart city movement,” and “great innovation leap forward”—that have become increasingly influential. Through case studies of Beijing, Hangzhou, and Hefei, Hu analyzes how attempts to achieve greater sustainability, promote data-driven governance, and foster innovation have fared on the ground. He also considers the experimental city Xiong’an in terms of China’s idealized vision of the urban future and investigates how the recent experiences of Hong Kong relate to regional and national development projects. Reinventing the Chinese City provides a careful accounting of the ideas that have dominated urban policy in China since 2010, emphasizing key continuities underlying claims of novelty. Shedding light on the transformations of the Chinese city, this book offers a new perspective on the factors that will shape the trajectory of urbanization in the coming decades.
Transforming Chinese Cities
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Author : Mark Wang
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-04-03
Transforming Chinese Cities written by Mark Wang and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-03 with Social Science categories.
The urbanisation of China over the last three decades has been a hugely significant development, both for China’s reform process and for the world more generally. This book presents recent research findings on China’s continuing urban transformation. Subjects covered include the decline of the rural-urban divide, the spatial restructuring of Chinese urban centres and urban infrastructure, migrant workers, new housing and new communities, and "green" responses to urban environmental problems. The book is particularly valuable in that it includes much new work by scholars based inside China.
Shrinking Cities Ghost Cities And High Debt Cities Iin Rapidly Urbanized China
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Author : Yuanshuo Xu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Shrinking Cities Ghost Cities And High Debt Cities Iin Rapidly Urbanized China written by Yuanshuo Xu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
This study is driven by the emerging phenomena in China's urbanization: shrinking cities, rapid land urbanization of "ghost cities", and high-debt cities. How do cities shrink in rapidly urbanized China? Why are local governments in China actively engaging in land development even if the population is shrinking to generate "ghost cities/towns"? Why do cities keep borrowing and accumulating high debts? The market-demand based theories can hardly explain these unique urban phenomena. Therefore, this study focuses on the "supply-side" stories, which is the core piece in China's "state-led" urbanization. I draw theories from state rescaling and develop it by examining its asymmetric features in policy domains and territorial dimensions in China's context. The first paper uses a new technique, Dynamic Time Warping clustering, to identify cities into different growing and shrinking typologies based on their urban population and economy trends from 2006 to 2015. Considering the asymmetric rescaling in terms of state spatial selectivity, the multinomial logistic regression shows different shrinking mechanisms between the south and the north. Shrinking cities in the south are losing their population due to their proximity to the state-selected high-level cities and the pulling effects. They sustain economic growth with more local debt and state funds for fixed assets investment. This may result in potential "ghost" phenomenon in these high-debt cities. In the north, shrinking cities are mining and resource-based and lack of competitiveness to attract investment by state and market. Some of these left-behind cities have to rely on their own by cheaply leasing land to finance urbanization. This also could generate the oversupplying issue of "ghost" cities. State fund for urban maintenance on facilities and service is found to be very critical to divert population into shrinking regions. The second paper focused on the land transactions of all city governments from 2006 to 2015 to explore why they are so passionate about land leasing, especially in the shrinking regions. Under China's asymmetric rescaling in policy dimensions, the paper first examines the institutional incentives from fiscal, political and economic aspects to drive local land transactions. The Geographical Temporal Weighted Regression disaggregates these incentives and shows they are particularly strong to drive land urbanization in the less developed northern and western inland regions. This is harmful to these cities since their populations are shrinking or slowly growing, and the land is leased at a lower price. Thus, the "ghost" phenomenon is expected, and land and public resources are used in an inefficient way. State funds need to be spatially designed and allocated carefully. The state fund for urban maintenance can reduce the incentives of such fiscalization of land use while state fund for fixed assets investment is found to promote more land competition. The third paper dives into the high local debt in China's urbanization and examines the spatially variegated stories of China's debt with a self-developed Geographical Weighted Panel Regression for all cities from 2006 to 2015. By exploring the institutional incentives of China's a.
Postsocialist Shrinking Cities
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Author : Chung-Tong Wu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-05-03
Postsocialist Shrinking Cities written by Chung-Tong Wu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-03 with Science categories.
This book provides a comparative analysis of shrinking cities in a broad range of postsocialist countries within the so-called Global East, a liminal space between North and South. While shrinking cities have received increased scholarly attention in the past decades, theoretical, and empirical research has remained predominantly centered on the Global North. This volume brings to the fore a range of new perspectives on urban shrinkage, identifying commonalities, differences, and policy experiences across a very diverse and vivid region with its various legacies and contemporary controversial developments. With chapters written by leading experts in the field, insider views assist in decolonizing urban theory. Specifically, the book includes chapters on shrinking cities in China, Russia, and postsocialist Europe, presenting comparative discussions within countries and crossnational cases on theoretical and policy implications. The book will be of interest to students and scholars researching urban studies, urban geography, urban planning, urban politics and policy, urban sociology, and urban development.
Shrinking Cities International Research
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Author : Philipp Oswalt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Shrinking Cities International Research written by Philipp Oswalt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Architecture categories.
Shrinking Cities: Volume 1~ISBN 3-7757-1682-3 U.S. $55.00 / Paperback, 6.75 x 9 in. / 736 pgs / 389 color and 114 b&w. ~Item / February / Architecture A decade ago, the prevailing wisdom was that cities grow, sprawling ever wider...In fact, while city dwellers make up nearly half the world's population, new research by the United Nations and other demographers has shown that for every two cities that are growing, three are shrinking. Some cities that were bustling centers of commerce just a generation ago have become modern-day Pompeiis. --The New York Times