Urban Planning Goes Rural. Conceptualising the “New Village”
Urban Planning Goes Rural. Conceptualising the “New Village”
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DOI:
10.4000/chinaperspectives.6273
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发表时间:
2013-09
影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
D. Bray
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作者:
D. Bray
A major goal of the national program to Build a New Socialist Countryside is to modernise and urbanise the rural built environment. This objective has been bolstered by the extension of state-sponsored urban planning regimes into rural jurisdictions. One of the implications of this is that every administrative village in China is now required to commission and implement a 20-year “master plan” for redevelopment. Through tracing the origins and rationale of key policy initiatives, in the first part of this paper I aim to show how urban planning came to be seen as an appropriate tool for solving a range of intractable rural “problems.” In the second part of the paper, I present a case study of village redevelopment in order to illustrate how the principles of urban planning have been applied to the re-making of rural built environments and the transformation of rural life.