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来源

URBAN POLICY AND RESEARCH,Vol.35,Issue2,P.210-223

语言

英文

关键字

Right to the city; equity; citizen equality; branding; migrant workers; state ambition; REDEVELOPMENT; CITIES; URBANIZATION; XINTIANDI; MIGRANTS; VILLAGES; PLACE; STATE; LAND

作者单位

[Wong, Tai-Chee] Guizhou Univ Finance & Econ, Inst Urban Econ & Dev, Guiyang, Peoples R China. [Liu, Ran] Capital Normal Univ, Coll Resource Environm & Tourism, 105 West 3rd Ring Rd North, Beijing 100048, Peoples R China. Liu, R (reprint author), Capital Normal Univ, Coll Resource Environm & Tourism, 105 West 3rd Ring Rd North, Beijing 100048, Peoples R China. E-Mail: liu.ran.space@hotmail.com

摘要

From the 1980s, urban-led economic pursuits, city image building, and residency control of rural migrants have been three key elements which are complementary yet conflicting in China's development path. Whilst the two former are pro-growth oriented, the low-image and potential risk to slum formation of rural migrants are found by the state to be incompatible with the modernist urbanism sought after. Under the state's ambitious city branding and intensive-cum-high value operations, the paper revisits Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey's notions on the right to the city. It highlights the social injustice issue of differentiated citizenship in terms of inequity of access to services and inequality between urban and rural origins. City-branding efforts have indeed contributed towards economic efficiency and land use rationalization but are characterized by an asymmetrical power and spatial redistribution process filled with inequalities against migrant workers and deprivation of rights. Recent developments have shown that the state has compromised and become more people-oriented and inclusive in its approach towards rural migrants.