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Title: Neoliberal state intervention and the power of community in urban regeneration : an empirical study of three village redevelopment projects in Guangzhou, China
Authors: Wong, SW 
Chen, X 
Tang, BS
Liu, J
Issue Date: Jun-2024
Source: Journal of planning education and research, June 2024, v. 44, no. 2, p. 619-631
Abstract: A key theme in urban governance research is how neoliberalism reshapes the state–society relationship. Our study on Guangzhou, where urban regeneration through massive redevelopment of “villages-in-the-city” uncovered interactions between the state, market, and community in local governance, contributes to this debate. Based on intensive field research to analyze three projects, we find that what really controls neoliberal growth in China is not simply the authoritarian tradition of the socialist state but also the power of the indigenous village communities. Our findings suggest that state intervention for community building is vital for rebalancing power relations between the state, market, and community.
Un tema clave en la investigación de la gobernanza urbana es cómo el neoliberalismo reforma la relación Estado-sociedad. Nuestro estudio sobre Guangzhou, donde la regeneración urbana a través del redesarrollo masivo de “pueblos en la ciudad” descubrió interacciones entre el estado, el mercado y la comunidad en la gobernanza local, contribuye a este debate. Basándonos en una intensa investigación de campo para analizar tres proyectos, encontramos que lo que realmente controla el crecimiento neoliberal en China no es simplemente la tradición autoritaria del estado socialista, sino también el poder de las comunidades de pueblos indígenas. Nuestros hallazgos sugieren que la intervención estatal para la construcción comunitaria es vital para reequilibrar las relaciones de poder entre el estado, el mercado y la comunidad.
城市治理研究的一个关键主题是新自由主义如何重塑国家与社会的关系。 我们在广州进行的研究表明, 通过”城中村”的大规模重建和城市更新, 揭示了地方治理中的国家, 市场和社区之间的相互作用, 这为该论证做出了贡献。 本文通过对这三个项目的深入实地研究, 我们发现真正控制中国新自由主义增长的不仅是社会主义国家的专制传统, 而且还包括土著村庄社区的力量。 我们的发现表明, 国家对社区建设的干预对于重新平衡国家、市场和社区之间的权力关系至关重要。
Keywords: Community building
Governance
Neoliberalism
Rural society
Urban regeneration
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Journal: Journal of planning education and research 
ISSN: 0739-456X
EISSN: 1552-6577
DOI: 10.1177/0739456X21994661
Rights: © The Author(s) 2021.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
The following publication Wong, S. W., Chen, X., Tang, B., & Liu, J. (2024). Neoliberal State Intervention and the Power of Community in Urban Regeneration: An Empirical Study of Three Village Redevelopment Projects in Guangzhou, China. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 44(2), 619-631 is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X21994661.
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