Invisible Architecture: Neighborhood Governance in China's Cities

Bridge, Gary (editor) / Watson, Sophie (editor) / Friedmann, John (author)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 690-700

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

2011-02-25

11 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch60

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

system of local governance ‐ process of urban transformation , functional equivalent of rural commune ‐ urban “work unit” or danwei , street offices (SOs), neighborhood branches of district bureaucracy , social collective, Shequ committee ‐ election, direct or indirect vote, selecting professional staff of center , invisible architecture ‐ neighborhood governance in China's cities , urban danwei, huge drain on fiscal capacity of the state ‐ also “marketized” , Maoist Era, institutional foundations ‐ party control, ubiquitous , the Danwei is dead, long live the Shequ ‐ controlling urban populations , invisible architecture of local governance in Chinese cities ‐ what makes urban China “Chinese” after all , The Reform Era, key institutional changes ‐ to Third Plenum of 11th Central Committee of CCP in 1978