Rethinking China's urban governance: The role of the state in neighbourhoods, cities and regions

F Wu, F Zhang - Progress in human geography, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Following the notion of the entrepreneurial city, this paper examines recent scholarship
about China's urban governance. Despite prevailing marketisation, the role of the state is …

Regulation flexibility and legitimacy building in governing intercity railways: The polymorphous role of the Chinese provincial government

X Zhang, Y Sun, X Luan - Journal of urban affairs, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study examines the polymorphous role of the Chinese provincial government in
planning, financing, and constructing intercity railways in the Pearl River Delta region …

[图书][B] Localized bargaining: The political economy of China's high-Speed Railway program

X Ma - 2022 - books.google.com
Looks at the rollout of one of the largest infrastructure programs in human history to show
how local governments play a complex role. China's high-speed railway network is one of …

Building Chinese city-regions under state entrepreneurialism

Y Li, W Chen, F Wu - Territory, Politics, Governance, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The past decade has witnessed a variety of city-regional projects across the world. However,
the geopolitical motivation or regional coalition alone cannot fully explain the actual …

Environmental city-regionalism in China: War against air pollution in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region

W Wang, F Wu, F Zhang - Transactions in Planning and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The state remains central in contemporary environmental politics and policies, although
environmental governance increasingly involves neoliberal and non-state mechanisms …

State-guided city regionalism: The development of metro transit in the city region of Nanjing

L Yang, W Chen, F Wu, Y Li, W Sun - Territory, politics, governance, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Geographies of city regionalism are variegated. In developed market economies, the
provision of regional transport infrastructure has been affected by territorial politics, which …

Borrowed size and borrowed administrative power: Effects of high-speed rail network on industrial upgrading and variegated externalities in the Yangtze River Delta …

D Shi, L Wang, X Zhang, T Yu - Journal of Transport Geography, 2025 - Elsevier
While the externalities of urban size on regional transportation infrastructure effects have
been extensively discussed, the role of urban administrative power has received …

Understanding the role of regional cooperation in mitigating ecological footprint: An empirical analysis of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-MacaoGreater Bay Area

X Zhang, Y Zou, JH Yeh, X You - Applied Geography, 2024 - Elsevier
Confronted with an escalating ecological crisis, regional cooperation has emerged as a
recognized strategy for orchestrating collective actions among diverse stakeholders across …

From the Pearl River Delta to the Greater Bay Area: State spatial selectivity, contingent socio-spatial processes, and variegated geographies of China's city …

Y Liu, S He - Transactions in Planning and Urban Research, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper revisits China's city-regionalism based on a multi-scalar reading of state
entrepreneurialism, with a special focus on the transition from the Pearl River Delta (PRD) to …

City Regionalism in the Global South: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

WK McWilson, Y Sun - Annals of the American Association of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigates city regionalism within the context of state restructuring in
postcolonial Ghana. To understand Ghana's emerging city regionalism, first, we argue that …