Journal article

Planning Particularities: Reinterpreting Urban Planning in China with the Case of Chengdu

Julie T Miao

Planning Theory and Practice | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) | Published : 2019

Abstract

The concept of neoliberalisation is increasingly applied to China to explain its unprecedented urban transformation. This paper argues against fitting China into a prototype neoliberal model. Instead it proposes a fresh interpretation of its urban planning particularities within a continuity-contestation framework, embodied in the context, governance and practice of planning. Chengdu, the gateway in West China, is chosen as a case study to illustrate this framework. Analysing the successive city Master Plans of Chengdu, it was found that there was a strong path dependency in Chengdu’s plan-making process. Yet contestations from the planning context and planning practice pressured for plannin..

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