Planning centrality, market instruments: Governing Chinese urban transformation under state entrepreneurialism

Urban Studies

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 1383-1399

  Wu, Fulong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; planning; urban entrepreneurialism; urban governance; urban transformation

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEUR; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; NEW TOWN; POLITICAL ECONOMY; RECONSTRUCTION; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POPULATION;

CHINA;

EID: 85043359590     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098017721828     Document Type: Article

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