Since the diverse interests of multiple stakeholders inevitably increase the complexity of
urban regeneration projects, collaborative decision-making has gradually been regarded as …

This chapter tries to integrate different approaches towards conceptualising informality by
distinguishing two major strands of the debate about formality and informality. Much of the …

Urban villages play an important role in providing affordable housing to urban migrants in
Chinese cities. They are considered as supplementary to the dual rural-urban system in …

Following nearly three decades of urban sprawl, China's urbanization has entered a new
era of land redevelopment that encompasses built-up land in villages in a manner that is …

This study introduces ideas from political science to investigate urban politics under
asymmetric power structures, which, as a crucial political context, have not been …

Urban villages in China are the spatial manifestation of urban informality. Previous research
has attributed the proliferation of urban villages to a lack of state regulation or the inability of …

Pragmatic Chinese ideological slogans like “groping for stones crossing the river”,“no matter
if it'sa black cat or a white cat, as long as it catches mice it'sa good cat” became guiding …

In this article I build on scholarship that calls for attention to the interventionist role of the
municipality in steering development beyond growth to introduce the situated planning …

This article links the redevelopment of urban villages in China to the discourse on
incremental housing schemes. Urban villages, due to the less regulated and more informal …

This paper analyses the variety of informal urban development and restructuring in the
Chinese Pearl River Delta (PRD) in the field of urbanized village (UV) redevelopment and …