The continuing expansion of construction land at the cost of agricultural lands and natural resources has elicited considerable concern among scholars and policy makers. Habitat III sponsored by United Nations in 2016, encourages spatial development strategies of prioritizing urban renewal and highlights approaches using contextual urban planning and design, policies, rules and regulations to shape the New Urban Agenda for sustainable urbanization. Chinese government sets New-type Urbanization…

This research investigates the mechanism of urban village redevelopment in south China. Through a revised typology of place entrepreneurs based on the growth machine thesis and a case study of Liede village in central Guangzhou, it illustrates how land-based interests embedded in an imbalanced power relationship can (de-)activate urban village redevelopment. The study reveals that while urban villagers, as represented by the village collective, have entrenched interests in the redevelopment…

Gentrification is a widespread urban phenomenon across the post-industrial world. However, rural gentrification has been explored insufficiently in the context of China's unprecedented urbanization. By reviewing the redevelopment processes in Zengcuoan village, Xiamen City, China, this study empirically reveals that the socio-spatial transformation of this village has been mainly led by artists and villagers based on institutional arrangements of land ownership. Rural gentrification, which…

香港城市更新一直伴随着不同的声音发展，政府和各利益群体竭尽全力地促进城市更新区内的可持续发展。文物保育和城市更新看起来似乎是矛盾的，两者是否可以并存?如何增强和提升社会层面的可持续发展，值得政府、学者和规划师的关注。基于城市更新设计的社会可持续性指标体系的构建，通过介绍旧香港水警总部项目，从社会因素着手评价香港的历史建筑保护和城市更新，并探讨其可持续性，从而提高城市整体的可持续发展和城市活力。这为国内其他城市在更新建设过程中增强社会可持续性等方面提供了有效的参考。

选择具有代表性的广州市金花街改造项目（1988~2003年）为案例研究对象，分析了政府主导下改造方案的调整过程和改造空间特征，探讨居民诉求和政府旧改政策对旧城空间的影响。研究表明：金花街居民的原地安置诉求和城市政府依此设计的以民生为导向的改造安排，乃是影响旧城空间的重要原因；在准市场化融资方式和福利化拆迁安置方式下，城市政府提出的有关提供公共服务设施、解决居民临时安置问题和让居民原地安置的要求，使改造规划多次提高改造容积率，以保持改造经济平衡；改造后的金花街在房屋和人口两个维度呈现空间加密化的态势，即存在原地安置房叠加融资商品房、原地安置居民叠加购房迁入居民的社会空间现象，金花街改造并未出现以外来中产人口大规模替代原住低收入人口为基本特征的绅士化过程。最后，从引入转让开发权和鼓励微改造两方面对当前广州的旧城改造提出政策建议。

Successful urban renewal requires a multifaceted strategic approach incorporating both local and regional regulations, developed through multi-sector and multi-agency partnerships. In practice, developments in China unfold as discrete projects without a broader consideration for city planning or long-term sustainability. Critically, no strategic manifesto has yet emerged to direct sustainable urban renewal (SUR) as a whole in Chinese cities. To improve understanding of existing practices and…

Urban redevelopment has emerged as a key topic in recent research into China’s urban political economy. Drawing on relevant debates at the urban community/neighbourhood level, this research presents a case study in which multi-scalar planning processes and social contestation have both played their parts in shaping an urban redevelopment project. The Enning Road Project in Guangzhou, known for its controversial plan-making process and rich heritage assets, has been chosen for this study. Based…

城中村是我国转型时期城市化过程中的一种新的空间现象。在由计划经济向市场经济转变的过程中,城市化的主体出现多样化的倾向。在财政分权下,城市政府和农村集体经济组织都成为城市化的微观主体之一,为了最大限度地获得由于城乡土地产权结构产生的"土地租金剩余",城市政府具有成本最小化激励;农村集体经济组织具有利益最大化的行为激励。由此,城市获得低成本的扩展,同时,被征地农民获得了土地非农收益权利。留用地政策就是这两种激励的结果,城中村的经济和空间形态也随之形成。在城市化过程中,城中村实际上承担了被征地农民的公共利益和收入保障的责任,仍然是城乡二元结构的延续,在最大限度获取"土地租金剩余"的情况下,城中村出现了类似西方贫民窟的"城市问题",也不具有外部改造的动力,自我更新可能是改造的出路。