Resilient Governance of Urban Redevelopment : State, Market and Communities in China Since 1990

To examine the origins, characteristics, and outcomes of resilient governance with Chinese characteristics, this open access book takes Guangzhou, a typical Chinese city from 1990 to 2015, as an example. Through participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and the collection of secondary data, this book finds that (1) the institutional context can be described as an authoritarian land-oriented pro-growth regime; (2) there are three phases with different patterns of governance: the Primitive Market Phase (1990–1998), the Pure Government Phase (1998–2006) and the Multiple Players Phase (2006–2015); (3) redevelopment can serve as a model of resilient governance because it changes in time in a dynamic environment to maximise economic growth; (4)  an authoritarian land-oriented pro-growth regime is the key to support such a resilient governance model.

This is an open access book.

Bin Li is an assistant professor in urban planning in City University of Macau. He got his Ph.D. in University of Birmingham, UK, in 2017. His working experience includes the teaching fellow in Sun Yat-sen University and the post-doc and assistant research professor in Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School. His research interests comprise urban regeneration, urban governance, and comparative urban studies.