Emerging spaces of neoliberal urbanism in China: Land commodification, municipal finance and local economic growth in prefecture-level cities

Urban Studies

Volumn 52, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 2774-2798

  Lin, George CS ^a   Zhang, Amy Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; land commodification; neoliberalism; public finance; urbanisation

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY; ECONOMIC GROWTH; FINANCE; NEOLIBERALISM; PUBLIC SPENDING; URBAN ECONOMY; URBANIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84945144257     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098014528549     Document Type: Article

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