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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... view more
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.... view less
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Free Keywords
Yinchuan; urbanisation; urban villages; resettlement; local governments
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 357-377
Journal
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 49 (2020) 3
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed