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作者

Minsi Liu;Kevin Lo

来源

CITIES,Vol.126,Issue1,Article 103704

语言

英文

关键字

Territorial politics;Urban expansion;Urban politics;Urban governance;Bargaining arenas;China

作者单位

The School of Public and Administration, Guangzhou Nanfang College, Guangzhou, China;Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China;The School of Public and Administration, Guangzhou Nanfang College, Guangzhou, China;Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China

摘要

Urban expansion is a controversial process where territorial conflicts of differing interests and objectives become manifest. The existing interpretations of urban expansion pay insufficient attention to the strategies deployed by municipal governments to resolve the territorial conflicts arising out of urban expansion. This paper identifies two key bargaining arenas through which municipal governments mitigate the territorial complications of urban expansion. First, administrative annexation not only involves municipal governments to gain control over more territory, but also entails strategies adopted to reconcile conflicts created by administrative restructuration, such as offering preferential fiscal and job arrangements. Second, land acquisition is not only about livelihood restoration of landless farmers but is also about converting them into citizens constituting new urban communities and integrating them into the urban mode of production. These bargaining arenas are the sites where the benefits and concessions of urban expansion are negotiated, and they play a key role in ensuring the smooth operation of urban expansion by resolving potential conflicts among stakeholders.