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The Hybrid Spatialities of Post-Industrial Beijing: Communism, Neoliberalism, and Brownfield Redevelopment

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  • Nyuying Wang

    (College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China)

  • Oleg Golubchikov

    (School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3WA, UK
    Visiting Professor, Department for Spatial Development and Regional Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 101000 Moscow, Russia)

  • Wei Chen

    (Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modelling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
    School of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China)

  • Zhigao Liu

    (Key Laboratory of Regional Sustainable Development Modelling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
    School of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China)

Abstract

While the redevelopment of urban brownfield sites in China has received much attention, the role of political ideology in this process is usually downplayed or sidelined to a set of stylized assumptions. This paper invites giving a greater analytical focus to the evolving and nonorthodox nature of China’s politico-ideological model as a factor shaping urban change and redevelopment. The paper provides an analytical framework integrating multi-level and evolutionary perspectives while exploring the experiences of the formation and post-industrial redevelopment of brownfield sites in Beijing. The analysis demonstrates that neoliberal economic policies and the communist political doctrine are co-constitutive in the production of China’s post-industrial urban space. This produces a sense of spatial hybridity that combines and co-embeds what may be assumed to be mutually exclusive.

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  • Nyuying Wang & Oleg Golubchikov & Wei Chen & Zhigao Liu, 2020. "The Hybrid Spatialities of Post-Industrial Beijing: Communism, Neoliberalism, and Brownfield Redevelopment," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(12), pages 1-19, June.
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