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| RESEARCH OF URBAN SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT'S ENTREPRENEURALIZATION |
| ZHANG Jing-xiang1, YIN Jie2, LUO Xiao-long3 |
1. Department of Urban & Resources Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China;
2. Forest Resources & Environment College, Nanjing Forest University, Nanjing 210037, China;
3. Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China |
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Abstract Under the circumstances of economic globalization, marketization and decentralization, China is undergoing a kind of profound and complete transformation in economy and social development, in which the change of government role has been worthy of attention. Different from the western entrepreneurial governance, China's local government prefers to put the administrative resources in the new urban competition, i.e., strong "government's entrepreneuralization" characteristics. The development for urban space is shown with the characteristics of governmental guidance and benefits-pursuing. From the viewpoint of government's entrepreneuralization, this paper will examine the deep mechanism of urban spatial development evolution at present in China, and objectively evaluate its corresponding effects.
It's believed in this paper that the transformation of Chinese socio-economic development occurred under both the domestic and foreign environments. Owing to the fierce competitive environment and in complete economic & political system reforms, various growth coalitions are formed in reality, caused by lo cal government with strong power and enterprises with capital control. Therefore, both economic and political benefits-pursuing have become the core part for local government at present, and urban space has become one of the important carriers to realize this goal. In essence, "government's entrepreneuralization" is featured as the behavior directed by government. Based on the above, five aspects are summarized to describe the characteristics of urban spatial development under the circumstances of local government's entrepreneuralization.
It's basically concluded that 1) Under the special period at present in China, the research of urban spatial evolution must be explained and understood in the big background——system transition. 2) Local government's entrepreneuralization orientation, which has appeared in transition, is the vital strength to guide the urban spatial development and evolution at present and a certain period in the near future in China. 3) The urban spatial development and evolution under the circumstances of local government's entrepreneuralization is the inevitable outcome in the deep socio-economic system transition.
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Received: 18 November 2005
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2006, Vol. 21 
