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This chapter examines the changing landscape of urban redevelopment in China from the early 1990s to the present. It discusses the shifting target of redevelopment from formal urban neighborhoods to informal urban villages. The redevelopment of urban villages entails different social-political dynamics from the “Shanghai model” of urban renewal in the 1990s. The changing regulations have made the “Shanghai model” unfeasible today and extended better protection for residents’ rights to housing. But urban village redevelopment has produced new forms of inclusion and exclusion, as a handful of property owners of urban villages are offered generous compensation and the majority of migrant tenants are excluded in the process.
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There is a large scholarship on urban demolitions and redevelopment over the past three decades. Examples of publications include: Fang (2001), Zhang and Fang (2004), Zhang (2008), Shin and Li (2013) on Beijing; Xu and Yeh (2005), Ye (2011, 2013), and Shin (2013) on Guangzhou; Wu (2000), Zhang (2002), He and Wu (2005), Ren (2008), Chen (2009), and Samara (2015) on Shanghai.
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Guangzhou Municipal Government (2009).
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Due to the large number of publications, specific journal articles are not listed here. The bibliography search was conducted through the database of Chinese Journals Online provided by Wanfang Data , with the Chinese word “城中村 (chengzhongcun)” as the title keyword.
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Land Resources and Housing Management (2007).
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Ren, X. (2018). A Genealogy of Redevelopment in Chinese Cities. In: Ye, L. (eds) Urbanization and Urban Governance in China. Governing China in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57824-2_5
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