STATE SPATIAL SELECTIVITY AND THE PROPERTY-LED DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN NEW TOWN IN CHINA: A CASE STUDY OF HEXI NEW TOWN IN NANJING

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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ›› 2018, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (5) : 63-70. DOI: 10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2018.05.008

STATE SPATIAL SELECTIVITY AND THE PROPERTY-LED DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN NEW TOWN IN CHINA: A CASE STUDY OF HEXI NEW TOWN IN NANJING

CHEN Hao¹, WANG Li-li², ZHANG Jing-xiang¹

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The mainstream theoretical perspectives on China's new town development consist of the process of ‘urbanization’, which conceives new town development as a natural result of urbanization, and ‘growth machine’, which perceives new town development as an entrepreneurial project dominated by local state and capital interest, as well as ‘demand-driving’ perspective, which concentrates on the demands of housing and property speculation. However, none of these perspectives provide convincing explanations for the dialectic processes-rapid development of new town and uneven restructuring of urban space. Rapid development of new town not only results in the uneven restructuring of urban space but also acts a result of the uneven development of urban space. To fill the theoretical gap, this paper employs the perspective of state spatial selectivity to decode the dialectic processes. For widely political and economic incentives, local government actively mobilizes the powers and resources it holds to promote the rapid and massive development of new town. In this process, local government inevitably empowers more to the new town while relatively marginalizes other spaces, leading to the uneven distribution of state power and resource in the urban space. Therefore, this paper insists that the theory of state spatial selectivity is an appropriate theoretical perspective to decode the dialectic processes of new town development and uneven restructuring of urban space.

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state space / spatial selectivity / uneven development / rent gap / New Town

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CHEN Hao, WANG Li-li, ZHANG Jing-xiang. STATE SPATIAL SELECTIVITY AND THE PROPERTY-LED DEVELOPMENT OF URBAN NEW TOWN IN CHINA: A CASE STUDY OF HEXI NEW TOWN IN NANJING[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2018, 33(5): 63-70 https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2018.05.008

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