Emerging participative approaches for urban regeneration in Chinese megacities

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Abstract

The rapid development of Chinese megacities in the last decades have been mainly characterized by top-down planning and large-scale urban development and redevelopment, as well as by using place-making as a tool for city branding. This approach has also been used in other countries and has been constantly criticized for replacing old neighborhoods. In recent years, alternative development modes and participative approaches in urban regeneration practices have emerged in cities such as Shanghai and Shenzhen. This paper investigates participative urban regeneration cases in Yangpu District, located in Shanghai, and the Dalang subdistrict in Shenzhen. Both case studies are located at the urban-rural interface, where past industrialization processes have resulted in complex sociospatial conditions. The primary focus was to analyze the governance aspects in the cases, such as the enabling factors that allow the participative approach to emerge in these projects and their governance model. This paper concludes on the importance of civil society organizations and the incorporation of social objectives in emerging participative regeneration practices.

Original languageEnglish
Article number04019029
Number of pages13
JournalJournal of Urban Planning and Development
Volume146
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

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Keywords

  • Chinese megacity
  • Participative urban regeneration
  • Place-making
  • Social inclusion

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