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Title	Decoding urban land governance: State reconstruction in contemporary chinese cities
Authors	Jiang, X2 Yeh, A1
Keywords	Governance approach Political power Urban development Decentralization State role
Issue Date	2009
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd.. The Journal's web site is located at http://usj.sagepub.com/
Citation	Urban Studies, 2009, v. 46 n. 3, p. 559-581 [How to Cite?] DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098008100995
Abstract	In the rapidly growing literature on urban development in China, many authors have emphasised the salient features of economic decentralisation and the increasingly significant role of the local state. However, such arguments neglect a counter-trend in which the central state has deterritorialised and rehierarchised some key functions. Using the case of land governance, this paper argues that facing the complication of changing urban conditions, there is a resurgence of the state's regulatory power. The decentralisation of economic governance is now counter-balanced by the rise of state strategies to control the articulation of scales through which a more centrally consolidated power can be achieved. The central government still serves as an important level of economic regulation. In this sense, new interpretations of commoditised urban transformation, especially commoditised production of the built environment, should be understood by underscoring the interplay between trends of decentralisation and territorialisation and counter-trends of recentralisation and hierarchisation. © 2009 Urban Studies Journal Limited.
ISSN	0042-0980 2011 Impact Factor: 1.28
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098008100995
ISI Accession Number ID	WOS:000208148200004
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dc.contributor.author	Jiang, X
dc.contributor.author	Yeh, A
dc.date.accessioned	2010-10-31T13:36:41Z
dc.date.available	2010-10-31T13:36:41Z
dc.date.issued	2009
dc.description.abstract	In the rapidly growing literature on urban development in China, many authors have emphasised the salient features of economic decentralisation and the increasingly significant role of the local state. However, such arguments neglect a counter-trend in which the central state has deterritorialised and rehierarchised some key functions. Using the case of land governance, this paper argues that facing the complication of changing urban conditions, there is a resurgence of the state's regulatory power. The decentralisation of economic governance is now counter-balanced by the rise of state strategies to control the articulation of scales through which a more centrally consolidated power can be achieved. The central government still serves as an important level of economic regulation. In this sense, new interpretations of commoditised urban transformation, especially commoditised production of the built environment, should be understood by underscoring the interplay between trends of decentralisation and territorialisation and counter-trends of recentralisation and hierarchisation. © 2009 Urban Studies Journal Limited.
dc.description.nature	postprint
dc.identifier.citation	Urban Studies, 2009, v. 46 n. 3, p. 559-581 [How to Cite?] DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098008100995
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098008100995
dc.identifier.epage	581
dc.identifier.hkuros	182877
dc.identifier.isi	WOS:000208148200004
dc.identifier.issn	0042-0980 2011 Impact Factor: 1.28
dc.identifier.issue	3
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dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10722/127630
dc.identifier.volume	46
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Sage Publications Ltd.. The Journal's web site is located at http://usj.sagepub.com/
dc.publisher.place	United Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartof	Urban Studies
dc.relation.references	References in Scopus
dc.rights	Urban Studies. Copyright © Sage Publications Ltd.
dc.rights	Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License
dc.subject	Governance approach
dc.subject	Political power
dc.subject	Urban development
dc.subject	Decentralization
dc.subject	State role
dc.title	Decoding urban land governance: State reconstruction in contemporary chinese cities
dc.type	Article

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Chinese University of Hong Kong