Governability, Borders and urban Citizenship: Investigating practices and impacts of spatial differentiation on the governance of mega-urban development in the PRD

研究项目的重点是在珠江三角洲特大城市地区选择使用不同的治理模式。我们认为，划定边界和差异化治理或明或暗地用于确保这一规模巨大、高度动态和非常多样化的城市区域的可治理性。本项目将通过分析以不同方式界定的各种类型的工作和居住场所，建立治理模式的类型学。从概念上讲，分析将侧重于确定、描述和解释空间包容和排斥的过程，以及不同地理单元所容忍甚至鼓励的不同形式和程度的非正规性和自我组织。通过“自上而下”和“自下而上”的调查，将了解空间差异化治理以及非正规性和自组织在城市化进程中的作用。这种深入的分析不仅有助于理解转型期中国的治理问题，而且对解决特大城市区域的治理问题具有重要意义。

The research project focuses on the selective use of different governance modes in the Pearl River Delta mega city region. We claim that the drawing of boundaries and differentiated governance are either explicitly or implicitly used to ensure the governability of this massive-scale, highly dynamic and very diverse urban region. By analyzing various types of, in different ways, bounded places of work and residence, this project will build up a typology of governance modes. Conceptually, the analysis will focus on the identification, characterization and explanation of processes of spatial inclusion and exclusion and of different forms and degrees of informality and self-organization tolerated or even encouraged in different geographical units. The understanding of both spatially differentiated governance and the role of informality and self-organization in the urbanization process will be gained from ¿top-down¿ and ¿bottom-up¿ investigations. This thorough analysis will contribute not only to the understanding of governance in transitional China but crucially to the general issue of governability of mega city regions.