This book unravels China’s new megaregional structure, new
megaregional planning and development, new megaregional governance,
and new regional planning system. It draws upon a diversity of
megaregional cases: city clusters of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei
region, Yangtze River delta region, and Greater Bay Area; and
metropolitan circles of Chengdu, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai,
Shenzhen, and Zhengzhou. Megaregions are the new form of Chinese-style
urbanisation. China’s new discourse of ‘high-quality
development’ and ‘new-type urbanisation’ is reshaping its
megaregional strategy. Imbalance and fragmentation characterise the
diversity of megaregions - developed or developing, coastal or inland.
The central goal of megaregional planning and governance is to achieve
integrated, balanced development of them. Hu challenges the official
notion of ‘top-level design’ that dominates the planning,
governance, and development of China’s megaregions. Instead, he
argues for the importance of engaging nongovernmental stakeholders,
rebalancing the government-market relationality, encouraging bottom-up
initiatives, and enabling grassroots ingenuity. The volume offers the
first and most comprehensive study of megaregional China in the new
contexts of both national development and urban development. It will
be of interest to anyone looking into urban and regional development,
and Chinese studies.
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ISBN
9781040017012
Publisert
2024
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Routledge
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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