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What they talk about when they talk about urban regeneration: Understanding the concept ‘urban regeneration’ in PRD, China
Abstract Urban regeneration is both a global phenomenon and a local challenge-driven activity embedded in local politics and institutional contexts, thus characterized by complexities in terms of its interpretation and theorization. This study investigates the knowledge structure and key features of urban regeneration activities in PRD, China based on local urban policies collected from the nine cities of the region and through summative content analysis. By discussing the connections of these features with local institutions and practices in other countries, it is concluded that policy-makers are keen to incorporate multifaceted aims in local urban regeneration practices to show that extensive lessons and experience are learned from the international context, but the transformation of these aims into feasible strategies is affected by rifts between policy-makers, obligations and entitlement granted to local bodies who dominate urban regeneration policy-making, and whether a consensus about relations between multiple aims and their priorities is reached, which shape the actual integrativeness of local urban regeneration. Meanwhile, popular approaches in the international context are consulted to enrich the toolkit for local governance. Their application to the resolution of locally rooted challenges shapes a new mode of urban regeneration on the one hand, and the underlying ideology works to divert local practices to a part of the global trends of urban regeneration, on the other hand.
Highlights This study understands the conceptualization of urban regeneration in the framework of global-local interplays. Summative content analysis on regeneration policies is conducted to extract the features of the (re)conceptualized urban regeneration. There are gaps between the stated aims of urban regeneration and the implementation actions. The stated aims are influenced by the experiences and debates in the international context and tend to be inclusive ones. The implementation is shaped by rifts between policymakers, the policy-making body’s entitlements, and the consensus about aims. Popular approaches’ application to the resolution of locally rooted challenges shapes new modes of urban regeneration. The underlying ideology of globally transferred approaches diverts local practices to a part of the global trends of urban regeneration.
What they talk about when they talk about urban regeneration: Understanding the concept ‘urban regeneration’ in PRD, China
Abstract Urban regeneration is both a global phenomenon and a local challenge-driven activity embedded in local politics and institutional contexts, thus characterized by complexities in terms of its interpretation and theorization. This study investigates the knowledge structure and key features of urban regeneration activities in PRD, China based on local urban policies collected from the nine cities of the region and through summative content analysis. By discussing the connections of these features with local institutions and practices in other countries, it is concluded that policy-makers are keen to incorporate multifaceted aims in local urban regeneration practices to show that extensive lessons and experience are learned from the international context, but the transformation of these aims into feasible strategies is affected by rifts between policy-makers, obligations and entitlement granted to local bodies who dominate urban regeneration policy-making, and whether a consensus about relations between multiple aims and their priorities is reached, which shape the actual integrativeness of local urban regeneration. Meanwhile, popular approaches in the international context are consulted to enrich the toolkit for local governance. Their application to the resolution of locally rooted challenges shapes a new mode of urban regeneration on the one hand, and the underlying ideology works to divert local practices to a part of the global trends of urban regeneration, on the other hand.
Highlights This study understands the conceptualization of urban regeneration in the framework of global-local interplays. Summative content analysis on regeneration policies is conducted to extract the features of the (re)conceptualized urban regeneration. There are gaps between the stated aims of urban regeneration and the implementation actions. The stated aims are influenced by the experiences and debates in the international context and tend to be inclusive ones. The implementation is shaped by rifts between policymakers, the policy-making body’s entitlements, and the consensus about aims. Popular approaches’ application to the resolution of locally rooted challenges shapes new modes of urban regeneration. The underlying ideology of globally transferred approaches diverts local practices to a part of the global trends of urban regeneration.
What they talk about when they talk about urban regeneration: Understanding the concept ‘urban regeneration’ in PRD, China
Chen, Xueying (author) / Duan, Jie (author)
Cities ; 130
2022-07-21
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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