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Planning Particularities: Reinterpreting Urban Planning in China with the Case of Chengdu

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  • Julie T. Miao

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The concept of neoliberalisation is increasingly applied to China to explain its unprecedented urban transformation. This paper argues against fitting China into a prototype neoliberal model. Instead it proposes a fresh interpretation of its urban planning particularities within a continuity-contestation framework, embodied in the context, governance and practice of planning. Chengdu, the gateway in West China, is chosen as a case study to illustrate this framework. Analysing the successive city Master Plans of Chengdu, it was found that there was a strong path dependency in Chengdu’s plan-making process. Yet contestations from the planning context and planning practice pressured for planning transformation. Interestingly, inconsistencies within its Master Plans sometimes worked in line with the market and mediated the conflicts between plan-led and market-led development logics.

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  • Julie T. Miao, 2019. "Planning Particularities: Reinterpreting Urban Planning in China with the Case of Chengdu," Planning Theory & Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(4), pages 512-536, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rptpxx:v:20:y:2019:i:4:p:512-536
    DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2019.1646923
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    1. Shaun S.K. Teo, 2023. "SOCIALLY ENGAGED MUNICIPAL STATECRAFT IN URBAN CHINA? The Shenzhen Biennale as Situated Planning Experiment," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 47(4), pages 581-600, July.
    2. Yue Gong & Yanning Wei, 2022. "The Transformation of Residential Segregation in the Pearl River Delta, China: A Planning-Driven Form," SAGE Open, , vol. 12(2), pages 21582440221, May.
    3. Nicholas A. Phelps & Julie T. Miao & Zhigang Li & Sainan Lin, 2021. "From Socialist Subject to Capitalist Object: Industry Enclave Life Past and Present in Wuhan," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 45(1), pages 99-115, January.

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