Invisible Architecture: Neighborhood Governance in China's Cities

The New Blackwell Companion to the City

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 690-700

  Friedmann, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Functional equivalent of rural commune urban "work unit" or danwei; Invisible architecture neighborhood governance in China's cities; Invisible architecture of local governance in Chinese cities what makes urban China "Chinese" after all; Maoist Era, institutional foundations party control, ubiquitous; Social collective, Shequ committee election, direct or indirect vote, selecting professional staff of center; Street offices (SOs), neighborhood branches of district bureaucracy; System of local governance process of urban transformation; The Danwei is dead, long live the Shequ controlling urban populations; The Reform Era, key institutional changes to Third Plenum of 11th Central Committee of CCP in 1978; Urban danwei, huge drain on fiscal capacity of the state also "marketized"

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885534095     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395105.ch60     Document Type: Chapter

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