China's Emergent City-Region Governance: A New Form of State Spatial Selectivity through State-orchestrated Rescaling

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1134-1151

  Wu, Fulong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; city regions; metropolitan areas; regional governance; rescaling; urban cluster

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); CRISIS MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; METROPOLITAN AREA; REGIONAL PLANNING; SPATIAL PLANNING; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY; URBANIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 85012289390     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12437     Document Type: Article

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