Overview
- This book takes into account the multiple approaches towards comprehensive urban restructuring and planning
- The authors of this edited volume are both academics and urban planning experts working on-site bringing together theoretical and practical knowledge, putting an emphasis on urban governance relations in order to better explain how decision-making behind urban restructuring is taking place
- The book is a useful guide which brings together multidisciplinary research
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research (AAHER)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Reorientation Toward Urban Regeneration
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The Evolution of Integrative Governance
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Public Open Space Between Appropriation and Marketing
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About this book
This edited volume covers the multiple changes concerning urban governance in the course of the progressive transformation of the Pearl River Delta mega-urban region in China. Looking at the megacities Guangzhou and Shenzhen, it analyzes the maturing of socio-economic, political and spatial structures after the first waves of economic globalization, political transformation, and their rapid expansion and urbanization. The initial claim and starting point of the book is the existence of a profound multidimensional shift in the coastal mega-urban region with a major tendency towards urban upgrading, economic restructuring and a clearly observable consolidation of political institutions. For the first time since the beginning of the reform and opening up after 1978, this has led to a stronger bias toward urban regeneration, an adaptive re-use of the building stock and an establishment of post-industrial knowledge-based creative industries. The book investigates these changes as a set of mutually dependent developments that have to be understood and analyzed in connection with one another. Thus, the backgrounds and underlying forces that shape physical restructuring in the developed urban cores of the mega-urban region and the ways in which the relevant actors and institutions are trying to both cope with and to influence each other are introduced here.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Uwe Altrock has degrees in Mathematics as well as Urban & Regional Planning. He is now Professor for Urban Regeneration and Planning at the University of Kassel, Germany.
Sonia Schoon has studied Chinese language and culture at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. She obtained an MA in Chinese Studies, European Anthropology and Public Law at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, and graduated with a Dr.Phil. in Chinese Studies at the same institution.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Maturing Megacities
Book Subtitle: The Pearl River Delta in Progressive Transformation
Editors: Uwe Altrock, Sonia Schoon
Series Title: Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6674-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6673-0Published: 02 September 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9351-4Published: 27 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6674-7Published: 19 August 2013
Series ISSN: 1879-7180
Series E-ISSN: 1879-7199
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 389
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Urbanism, Regional/Spatial Science