Housing is often identified by the government and scholars as a key dimension of strategy
for promoting migrant social integration. Yet, existing studies often pay attention to …

An extensive body of literature documents large-scale property-led redevelopment in the
world and in China. However, in recent years China has seen the policy shift toward small …

Instead of generating a grand theory from urban China, I have a rather modest aim–how we
might use the political-economic perspective to better understand China's urban …

Industrial heritage conservative reuse has become a territorialised urban strategy in China's
recent urban regeneration programmes in which the local state mobilises appropriate …

By analysing the development and operation of local government bonds (LGBs), a new tool
fashioned by the Chinese government to finance infrastructure projects, this article improves …

In this chapter, the authors use China's urban development politics as an example to
illustrate how they might theorise urbanisation and urban development politics in a non …

While the neighbourhood has been recognised as the basic unit for civic engagement and
social cohesion, debates have emerged regarding the social and political implications of the …

How urban entrepreneurialism is enacted at the neighbourhood level while connecting with
broader urban processes remains insufficiently explored. This study introduces a novel …

This paper reviews the literature on state entrepreneurialism. It clarifies the theoretical
construction of state entrepreneurialism in the historical context and identifies the tension …

Urbanization has become a core strategy for the Communist Party of China (CPC) to
reinforce its authoritarian rule over China. Its roll‐out is replete with tensions, however …