Transnational urbanism interrupted: A Chinese developer’s attempts to secure approval to build the ‘New York of Africa’ at Modderfontein, Johannesburg
Transnational urbanism interrupted: A Chinese developer’s attempts to secure approval to build the ‘New York of Africa’ at Modderfontein, Johannesburg
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跨国城市化进程中断：中国开发商试图获得批准在约翰内斯堡莫德方丹建造“非洲纽约”
DOI：
10.1177/0308518x19853277
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发表时间：
2020
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通讯作者：
P. Harrison
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作者：
Richard Ballard;P. Harrison
本文探讨了开发人员如何尝试进入新的设置，以及此类尝试有时会失败。与以各种方式“嵌入”的长期开发人员不同（Henneberry 和 Parris，2013），新来者必须克服对预期项目背景的不熟悉。我们以约翰内斯堡莫德方丹 (Modderfontein) 拟议的大型项目为例，研究了中国开发商如何与约翰内斯堡的规划环境进行协调。它通过将员工部署到约翰内斯堡、雇用当地专业人员、赢得省级政治家的青睐以及在英国聘请顾问来帮助与负责审批的规划者达成交易，从而建立了广泛的网络。使用双赢的叙述向市政规划者推销该项目的复杂努力未能满足规划者的实质性担忧，即该项目将破坏城市空间，在经济上具有排他性，并可能损害城市其他地方的经济。由于审批延迟，加上本土面临金融危机，开发商最终退出。本文探讨了围绕大型项目出现的跨国网络之间的相互作用；以不同规划文化为特征的项目谈判交流空间；以及允许或阻碍跨国发展的政治经济背景。
This article examines how developers attempt to move into new settings, and how such attempts sometimes fail. Unlike long-standing developers, who are in various ways ‘embedded’ (Henneberry and Parris, 2013), newcomers have to overcome their lack of familiarity with the context of their intended project. Using the case of a proposed megaproject at Modderfontein in Johannesburg, we examine how a Chinese developer worked to articulate with the Johannesburg planning environment. It produced an extensive network by deploying its staff to Johannesburg, hiring local professional staff, winning the favour of provincial politicians and hiring consultants in the UK in order to help close a deal with planners responsible for approval. Sophisticated efforts to pitch the project to municipal planners using win-win narratives failed to satisfy the planners’ material concerns that the project would break up urban space, would be financially exclusionary and could undermine economies elsewhere in the city. The developer ultimately withdrew as a result of delays in approval combined with a financial crisis it faced in its home context. The article considers the interplay between the transnational networks that emerge around megaprojects; the communicative space of project negotiations that is characterised by different cultures of planning; and the political economic context that allows – or interrupts – transnational development.
网络、接口和计算机生成的图像：从城市重建项目的数字可视化中学习
DOI：
10.1068/d13113p
发表时间：
2014
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Society and Space
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作者：
Rose G
通讯作者：
Rose G