Rethinking China’s Model of Urban Governance

Project Information

ChinaUrban

Grant agreement ID: 832845

DOI

10.3030/832845

EC signature date 9 August 2019

Start date 1 January 2020

End date 30 June 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 492 786,00

EU contribution

€ 2 492 786,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (41)

“Micro-regeneration”: Toward small-scale, heritage-oriented, and participatory redevelopment in China

Author(s): Manqi Wang, Fangzhu Zhang, Fulong Wu
Published in: Journal of Urban Affairs, 2022, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 0735-2166
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2022.2139711

The development of local government financial vehicles in China: A case study of Jiaxing Chengtou

Author(s): Yi Feng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
Published in: Land Use Policy, 2020, Page(s) 104793, ISSN 0264-8377
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104793

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

Author(s): Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
Published in: Progress in Human Geography, 2022, Page(s) Volume: 46 issue: 3, page(s): 775-797, ISSN 0309-1325
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/03091325211062171

Statecraft at the frontier of capitalism: A grounded view from China

Author(s): Fulong Wu, Handuo Deng, Yi Feng, Weikai Wang, Ying Wang, Fangzhu Zhang
Published in: Progress in Human Geography, 2024, ISSN 0309-1325
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/03091325241268953

The long shadow of the state: Financializing the Chinese city.

Author(s): Fulong Wu
Published in: Urban Geography, Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 0272-3638
Publisher: V.H. Winston and Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2021.1959779

City-regional governance under state entrepreneurialism in China

Author(s): Fangzhu Zhang, Fulong Wu, Weikai Wang
Published in: Transactions in Planning and Urban Research, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 3-15, ISSN 2754-1223
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/27541223231164786

Positioning China’s state entrepreneurialism in structural coherence and multiple logics

Author(s): Handuo Deng
Published in: Transactions in Planning and Urban Research, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 296-313, ISSN 2754-1223
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/27541223231188599

Environmental statecraft and changing spatial politics: Erhai Lake protection in China

Author(s): Yi Feng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
Published in: Political Geography, Issue 115, 2024, Page(s) 103196, ISSN 0962-6298
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103196

Understanding the intergroup relations of migrants in China

Author(s): Mengran Xu, Fulong Wu, Zhigang Li
Published in: Population, Space and Place, Issue 28(2), 2022, Page(s) e2540, ISSN 1544-8444
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/psp.2540

Migrants' willingness to contact local residents in China

Author(s): Mengran Xu; Susan Moore; Fulong Wu; Zhigang LI
Published in: Cities, Issue 133, 2023, Page(s) 104120, ISSN 0264-2751
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2022.104120

Governing urban redevelopment: A case study of Yongqingfang in Guangzhou, China

Author(s): Manqi Wang; Fangzhu Zhang; Fulong Wu
Published in: Cities, Issue 120, 2022, Page(s) 103420-103420, ISSN 0264-2751
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2021.103420

The Political Economy of China's Local Debt

Author(s): Zhenfa Li, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
Published in: The China Quarterly, Issue 257, 2024, Page(s) 100-118, ISSN 0305-7410
Publisher: Contemporary China Institute of the School of Oriental and African Studies
DOI: 10.1017/s0305741023000814

State de-financialisation through incorporating local government bonds in the budgetary process in China

Author(s): Zhenfa Li, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
Published in: Journal of Economic Geography, Issue 23, 2023, Page(s) 1169-1190, ISSN 1468-2702
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/lbad016

Green state entrepreneurialism: Building the park city in Chengdu, China

Author(s): Fangzhu Zhang, Fulong Wu
Published in: Transactions in Planning and Urban Research, 2024, ISSN 2754-1223
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/27541223241253231

Governing innovation-driven development under state entrepreneurialism in China

Author(s): Kan Zhu, Fangzhu Zhang, Fulong Wu, Yi Feng
Published in: Cities, Issue 152, 2024, Page(s) 105194, ISSN 0264-2751
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105194

New land reserve institution and changing entrepreneurial urban governance in China

Author(s): Yi Feng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
Published in: Cities, Issue 152, 2024, Page(s) 105242, ISSN 0264-2751
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105242

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

Author(s): Weikai Wang, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
Published in: Transactions in Planning and Urban Research, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 132-148, ISSN 2754-1223
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/27541223221144595

Creating a state strategic innovation space: the development of the Zhangjiang Science City in Shanghai

Author(s): Kan Zhu; Fulong Wu; Fangzhu Zhang
Published in: International Journal of Urban Sciences, Issue 3, 2022, ISSN 1226-5934
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/12265934.2022.2132988

Building state centrality through state selective financialization: Reconfiguring the land reserve system in China

Author(s): Yi Feng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
Published in: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Issue 56, 2024, Page(s) 766-783, ISSN 0308-518X
Publisher: Pion Ltd.
DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231212974

The state acts through the market: ‘State entrepreneurialism’ beyond varieties of urban entrepreneurialism

Author(s): Fulong Wu
Published in: Dialogues in Human Geography, Issue 10/3, 2020, Page(s) 326-329, ISSN 2043-8206
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/2043820620921034

Adding new narratives to the urban imagination: An introduction to ‘New directions of urban studies in China’

Author(s): Fulong Wu
Published in: Urban Studies, Issue 57/3, 2020, Page(s) 459-472, ISSN 0042-0980
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
DOI: 10.1177/0042098019898137

Adaptable state-controlled market actors: Underwriters and investors in the market of local government bonds in China

Author(s): Zhenfa Li, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
Published in: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, Issue 55, 2023, Page(s) 2088-2107, ISSN 0308-518X
Publisher: Pion Ltd.
DOI: 10.1177/0308518x231174023

Assembling state power through rescaling: Inter-jurisdictional development in the Beijing-Tianjin Zhongguancun Tech Town

Author(s): Weikai Wang, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
Published in: Political Geography, Issue 112, 2024, Page(s) 103131, ISSN 0962-6298
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103131

Participatory micro-regeneration: governing urban redevelopment in Qinghe, Beijing

Author(s): Ying Wang, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
Published in: Urban Geography, 2024, Page(s) 1-22, ISSN 0272-3638
Publisher: V.H. Winston and Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2024.2349449

A multi-scalar view of urban financialization: urban development and local government bonds in China

Author(s): Zhenfa Li, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
Published in: Regional Studies, Issue 56, 2022, Page(s) 1282-1294, ISSN 0034-3404
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2021.1998419

Beyond Growth Machine Politics: Understanding State Politics and National Political Mandates in China’s Urban Redevelopment

Author(s): Fulong Wu; Fangzhu Zhang; Yuqi Liu
Published in: Antipode, Issue 54(2), 2022, Page(s) 608-628, ISSN 0066-4812
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/anti.12781

Shanghai municipal investment corporation: Extending government power through financialization under state entrepreneurialism

Author(s): Yi Feng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
Published in: Environment and Planning C, 2022, ISSN 2399-6544
Publisher: SAGE
DOI: 10.1177/23996544221114955

Building Chinese city-regions under state entrepreneurialism

Author(s): Yi Li, Wen Chen, Fulong Wu
Published in: Territory, Politics, Governance, 2023, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 2162-2671
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2023.2206430

The Sense of Community in Homeowner Association Neighborhoods in Urban China: A Study of Wenzhou

Author(s): Tingting Lu, Fangzhu Zhang, Fulong Wu
Published in: Housing Policy Debate, 2022, ISSN 1051-1482
Publisher: Federal National Mortgage Association
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2021.2011767

Theorising urban development in China: ‘State entrepreneurialism’ from the ground up

Author(s): Fulong Wu
Published in: Dialogues in Human Geography, 2023, Page(s) 204382062311746, ISSN 2043-8206
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/20438206231174638

A Geographical Approach to China’s Local Government Debt

Author(s): Zhenfa Li, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
Published in: The Professional Geographer, Issue 76, 2024, Page(s) 318-330, ISSN 0033-0124
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2023.2300803

Migrants’ perceived social integration in different housing tenures in urban China

Author(s): Sainan Lin, Fulong Wu, Yu Wang, Zhigang Li
Published in: Geoforum, Issue 139, 2023, Page(s) 103693, ISSN 0016-7185
Publisher: Pergamon Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103693

Financialization under state entrepreneurialism in China

Author(s): Fulong Wu, Fenghua Pan, Jie Chen
Published in: Regional Studies, Issue 56(8), 2022, Page(s) 1237-1243, ISSN 0034-3404
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2022.2051471

Scripting Indian and Chinese urban spatial transformation: Adding new narratives to gentrification and suburbanisation research:

Author(s): Fulong Wu
Published in: Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy (2020), Issue 38(6), 2020, ISSN 2399-6544
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/2399654420912539

The role of the local government in China's urban sustainability transition: A case study of Wuxi's solar development

Author(s): Fangzhu Zhang, Calvin King Lam Chung, Tingting Lu, Fulong Wu
Published in: Cities, Issue 117, 2021, Page(s) 103294, ISSN 0264-2751
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2021.103294

Changing roles of the state in the financialization of urban development through chengtou in China

Author(s): Yi Feng, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
Published in: Regional Studies, 2021, Page(s) 1-12, ISSN 0034-3404
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2021.1900558

Financialised urban development: Chinese and (South-)East Asian observations

Author(s): Fangzhu Zhang; Fulong Wu
Published in: Land Use Policy, Issue 112, 2022, Page(s) 105813-105813, ISSN 0264-8377
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105813

The socio-ecological fix by multi-scalar states: The development of ‘Greenways of Paradise’ in Chengdu

Author(s): Fangzhu Zhang; Fulong Wu; Yishan Lin
Published in: Political Geography, Issue 98, 2022, Page(s) 102736, ISSN 0962-6298
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102736

Peri-urban transformation in the Global South: a comparative socio-spatial analytics approach

Author(s): Alexander Follmann, Loraine Kennedy, Karin Pfeffer, Fulong Wu
Published in: Regional Studies, Issue 57, 2023, Page(s) 447-461, ISSN 0034-3404
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2022.2095365

Performing the ecological fix under state entrepreneurialism: A case study of Taihu New Town, China

Author(s): Fangzhu Zhang, Fulong Wu
Published in: Urban Studies, 2021, Page(s) 004209802199703, ISSN 0042-0980
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
DOI: 10.1177/0042098021997034

Metropolitanization through making ‘new metropolitan plans’ in China

Author(s): Weikai Wang, Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang
Published in: Habitat International, Issue 143, 2024, Page(s) 102987, ISSN 0197-3975
Publisher: Pergamon Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2023.102987

Monographic books (1)

Creating Chinese Urbanism: Urban revolution and governance change

Author(s): Fulong Wu
Published in: 2022, ISBN 978-1-80008-335-6
Publisher: UCL Press
DOI: 10.14324/111.9781800083332