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From blueprint to action: The transformation of the planning paradigm for desakota in China
AbstractWith a case study of Chaonan in Guangdong Province, this study examines China's desakota and its planning paradigm. After three decades of high-speed growth, the marginal areas of Guangdong Province — the lab of China's market-oriented reform and open door policy, are still fraught with desakotas, semi-urbanized areas of mixed landscape, economic and administrative systems. Chaonan faces a number of challenges, such as economic slowdown, poor infrastructure, environmental pollution, and so on. We found that China's desakota is driven by decades of rural industrialization, and this is now becoming a major challenge to master planning, the paradigm of which mainly comes from the rational theories of early western countries. As the traditional paradigm emphasizes the overall blueprint, there is a mismatch between planning orientation and spontaneous investment demand. Planning implementation thus is almost impossible. As such, we take the master plan of Chaonan as a case to integrate both blueprints and actions. To turn traditional blueprint-led planning into action-led planning, we highlight both recent and long-term actions, to make practical improvements to various facets, socio-economic upgrading, socio-spatial transformation, and environmental sustainability. Above all, we argue that action-led planning is the key to the transformation of desakotas in China.
HighlightsAction-led planning is the key to the transformation of desakota in China.Desakota faces serious challenges: low-speed economic growth, poor infrastructure, environmental pollution, and so on.The growth of China's desakota is driven by decades of rural industrialization.The traditional blueprint-led planning failed to implement in desakota.
From blueprint to action: The transformation of the planning paradigm for desakota in China
AbstractWith a case study of Chaonan in Guangdong Province, this study examines China's desakota and its planning paradigm. After three decades of high-speed growth, the marginal areas of Guangdong Province — the lab of China's market-oriented reform and open door policy, are still fraught with desakotas, semi-urbanized areas of mixed landscape, economic and administrative systems. Chaonan faces a number of challenges, such as economic slowdown, poor infrastructure, environmental pollution, and so on. We found that China's desakota is driven by decades of rural industrialization, and this is now becoming a major challenge to master planning, the paradigm of which mainly comes from the rational theories of early western countries. As the traditional paradigm emphasizes the overall blueprint, there is a mismatch between planning orientation and spontaneous investment demand. Planning implementation thus is almost impossible. As such, we take the master plan of Chaonan as a case to integrate both blueprints and actions. To turn traditional blueprint-led planning into action-led planning, we highlight both recent and long-term actions, to make practical improvements to various facets, socio-economic upgrading, socio-spatial transformation, and environmental sustainability. Above all, we argue that action-led planning is the key to the transformation of desakotas in China.
HighlightsAction-led planning is the key to the transformation of desakota in China.Desakota faces serious challenges: low-speed economic growth, poor infrastructure, environmental pollution, and so on.The growth of China's desakota is driven by decades of rural industrialization.The traditional blueprint-led planning failed to implement in desakota.
From blueprint to action: The transformation of the planning paradigm for desakota in China
Chen, Yi (author) / Wen, Yuan (author) / Li, Zhigang (author)
Cities ; 60 ; 454-465
2016-04-26
12 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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