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The RuralUrban Fringes in the Local Limelight: Urban Village Redevelopment in Yinchuan, Ningxia
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Abstract As urbanisation strategies have been adopted throughout China in recent years, it has become increasingly relevant to study their implementation processes in so-called lower-tier cities away from the well-known regions. Urbanisation has given rise to different types of settlements for landless peasa... mehr
As urbanisation strategies have been adopted throughout China in recent years, it has become increasingly relevant to study their implementation processes in so-called lower-tier cities away from the well-known regions. Urbanisation has given rise to different types of settlements for landless peasants: planned resettlement neighbourhoods, as well as more or less accidentally grown urban villages. While resettlement is widely adopted and positively propagated, urban villages are usually only seen as soon-to-be demolished "non-places" and their residents are often stigmatised. This article focuses on a case in Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia Hui autonomous region. It analyses the demolition process of Yingnan village and its lead-up and finds that despite this general discursive framework, exposure on a local TV show and low scores on a national "civilised cities" ranking pressured the local government to not ignore Yingnan village as merely a “non-place” but to invest in better sanitary conditions and speed up redevelopment.... weniger
Klassifikation
Raumplanung und Regionalforschung
Freie Schlagwörter
Yinchuan; urbanisation; urban villages; resettlement; local governments
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Seitenangabe
S. 357-377
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 49 (2020) 3
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)