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China's Urban Champions - The Politics of Spatial Development (Paperback)
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China's Urban Champions - The Politics of Spatial Development (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Studies in Contemporary China
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An exploration of how key provinces in China shape urban and
regional development The rise of major metropolises across China
since the 1990s has been a double-edged sword: although big cities
function as economic powerhouses, concentrated urban growth can
worsen regional inequalities, governance challenges, and social
tensions. Wary of these dangers, China's national leaders have
tried to forestall top-heavy urbanization. However, urban and
regional development policies at the subnational level have not
always followed suit. China's Urban Champions explores the
development paths of different provinces and asks why policymakers
in many cases favor big cities in a way that reinforces spatial
inequalities rather than reducing them. Kyle Jaros combines
in-depth case studies of Hunan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, and Jiangsu
provinces with quantitative analysis to shed light on the political
drivers of uneven development. Drawing on numerous Chinese-language
written sources, including government documents and media reports,
as well as a wealth of field interviews with officials, policy
experts, urban planners, academics, and businesspeople, Jaros shows
how provincial development strategies are shaped by both the
horizontal relations of competition among different provinces and
the vertical relations among different tiers of government.
Metropolitan-oriented development strategies advance when lagging
economic performance leads provincial leaders to fixate on boosting
regional competitiveness, and when provincial governments have the
political strength to impose their policy priorities over the
objections of other actors. Rethinking the politics of spatial
policy in an era of booming growth, China's Urban Champions
highlights the key role of provincial units in determining the
nation's metropolitan and regional development trajectory.
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