Urbanization in China's lower Yangzi delta : transactional relations and the repositioning of locality / Andrew M. Marton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marton, Andrew M. (Andrew Mark), 1960-

Series:

EAI occasional paper ; no. 10.

EAI occasional paper ; no. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--China--Kʻun-shan shih.

Urbanization.

Rural development--China--Kʻun-shan shih.

Rural development.

Regional planning--China--Kʻun-shan shih.

Regional planning.

Industrial location--China--Kʻun-shan shih.

Industrial location.

Space in economics.

Kunshan Shi (China).

China--Kunshan Shi.

Physical Description:

v, 55 pages : maps ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : World Scientific Pub. : Singapore University Press, [1998]

Summary:

The development of market socialism in China has contributed to a remarkable spatial economic transformation in particular areas of the Chinese countryside. The conventional wisdom of existing theories of urban transition does not adequately explain the emergence of these open textured landscapes of mixed agricultural & nonagricultural activities. This paper examines some of the key processes & mechanisms of regional restructuring in one county level jurisdiction in the lower Yangzi delta. A case study of Kunshan situates the emergence of specific patterns of industrial production within a complex network of interactions & interrelationships embedded in overlapping administrative & institutional structures which are themselves largely tied to the circumstances of particular places. Two central findings are revealed. First, the patterns & underlying processes & mechanisms of regional development in the delta are fundamentally linked to intensely localized exigencies & opportunities within the wider space economy. Second, external economies, the dynamics of agglomeration, & the role of large cities & other exogenous forces, while significant, were less important in the delta than were endogenous forces. Highlighted are a number of issues which need to be accommodated in a new conceptual framework for understanding & explaining urbanization in China's lower Yangzi delta. The paper concludes by outlining a planning & management agenda which responds to the resulting conceptual & analytical shift in emphasis. Readership: General.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

981023757X

OCLC:

41298662