Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China

249 Pages·2015·29.81 MB·English

by  Fulong Wu

Planning for Growth
Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in Chinaprovides an overview
of the changes in China’s planning system, policy, and practices since the mid-
20th century using concrete examples and informative details in language that
is accessible enough for the undergraduate but thoroughly grounded in a wealth
of research and academic experience to support academics. It is the first
accessible text on changing urban and regional planning in China under the
process of transition from a centrally planned socialist economy to an emerging
market in the world.
Fulong Wu, a leading authority on Chinese cities and urban and regional
planning, sets up the historical framework of planning in China including its
foundation based on the proactive approach to economic growth, the new forms
of planning, such as the ‘strategic spatial plan’ and ‘urban cluster plans’ that
have emerged and stimulated rapid urban expansion, and transformed compact
Chinese cities into dispersed metropolises. It goes on to explain the new
planning practices that began to pay attention to eco-cities, new towns and
new development areas.
Planning for Growthdemonstrates that planning is not necessarily an ‘enemy
of growth’ and plays an important role in Chinese urbanization and economic
growth. On the other hand, it also shows planning’s limitations in achieving
a more sustainable and just urban future.
Fulong Wu is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London.
His research includes China’s urban development and planning and its
social and sustainable challenges. He is co-editor of Restructuring the Chinese
City (2005), Marginalization in China (2010), International Perspectives on
Sub urbanization (2011), and Rural Migrants in Urban China (2013), editor of
Globalization and the Chinese City (2006), China’s Emerging Cities (2007), and
co-author of Urban Development in Post-Reform China: State, Market, and Space
(2007), and China’s Urban Poverty (2010).
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Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China
Fulong Wu
Planning for Growth
Urban and Regional Planning
in China
Fulong Wu
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Wu, Fulong.
Planning for growth: urban and regional planning in China/Fulong Wu.
pages cm. — (The RTPI library series)
Includes index.
1. City planning—China. 2. Regional planning—China. 3. Urban
policy—China. I. Title.
HT169.C6W8 2015
307.1′2160951—dc23
2014026912
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To Ben and Jack
“Fulong Wu explains the paradox that urban planning had marginal importance
in China’s socialist era but has become a key mechanism for growth promotion
in the market reform period. He details how and why Chinese cities compete
with one another, and how they combine with the central government to carry
out a national development strategy based on urbanization.”
—John R. Logan, Director of the Urban China
Research Network, Brown University
“Planning for Growth is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand
the complexity of the planning system, policy and practice in contemporary
China. Written in an effective and succinct style, with many interesting
examples and illustrations, Fulong Wu provides both clarity and a reflective
account of the dynamic interaction between the planning system and the
economic growth machinery in China over the last two decades.”
—Cecilia Wong, Professor of Spatial Planning,
The University of Manchester
Contents
List of Figures x
List of Plates xii
List of Tables xiv
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
1 China’s Planning Origin and Tradition 1
2 Planning During the Socialist Period and its Legacies 22
3 The Chinese Planning System 51
4 Planning Under Urban Entrepreneurialism 79
5 National and Regional Planning 119
6 New Practices: New Town and Eco-city Planning 143
7 Planning During Market Transition 190
References 213
Index 225