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Neither Careful Nor Destructive: Is Urban Renewal in Transition?

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Abstract

In this chapter, Romano illustrates the presence of twists and turns in the process of policy learning, showing first of all an initial phase of rejection – that halted the process of policy experimentation. However, later on the local government returned to apply a careful approach to urban renewal. This shift was due to the presence of different actors at different levels of the local administration, as well as to the emergence of new discourses of the central government. Nevertheless, when looking at the process from a broader perspective, the author argues that it is not possible to talk about a real paradigm shift as reforms supporting such type of change are still missing and depend on the willingness and capacity of the central government.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Interviews 2015.

  2. 2.

    Interviews 2015.

  3. 3.

    Interview 2015.

  4. 4.

    Interview 2015.

  5. 5.

    Interview 2014.

  6. 6.

    Interview 2015.

  7. 7.

    Interviews 2014, 2015.

  8. 8.

    Interview 2014.

  9. 9.

    Ibid.

  10. 10.

    Ibid.

  11. 11.

    Interview 2015.

  12. 12.

    Interviews 2018.

  13. 13.

    Interview 2015.

  14. 14.

    Ibid.

  15. 15.

    Interviews 2018.

  16. 16.

    Interviews 2018.

  17. 17.

    Interview 2018.

  18. 18.

    Interviews 2015.

  19. 19.

    Interview 2015.

  20. 20.

    Interviews 2015, 2018.

  21. 21.

    Fieldwork observations.

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    Interview 2015.

  23. 23.

    Free translation from French.

  24. 24.

    Interviews 2015.

  25. 25.

    Interviews 2018.

  26. 26.

    Free translation from Chinese.

  27. 27.

    Interviews 2018.

  28. 28.

    Interviews 2018.

  29. 29.

    Interviews 2018.

  30. 30.

    Interviews 2014, 2015.

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    Interview 2018.

  32. 32.

    Interviews 2015, 2018.

  33. 33.

    Interviews 2015, 2018.

  34. 34.

    Interviews 2018.

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    Interview 2014.

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    Interview 2015.

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    Interview 2014.

  38. 38.

    Interviews 2015.

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    Interview 2014.

  40. 40.

    Ibid.

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    Interviews 2014, 2015.

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    Interview 2015.

  43. 43.

    Ibid.

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    Interviews 2014.

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    Interviews 2014.

  46. 46.

    Interview 2015.

  47. 47.

    Interview 2014.

  48. 48.

    Interviews 2015, 2018.

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Romano, G.C. (2020). Neither Careful Nor Destructive: Is Urban Renewal in Transition?. In: Changing Urban Renewal Policies in China. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36008-5_6

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