TY - JOUR
T1 - City as province in China
T2 - the territorial urbanization of Chongqing
AU - Hidalgo Martinez, Miguel
AU - Cartier, Carolyn
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Australian Research Council [grant number DP120101901], and University of Technology, Sydney [UTS International Scholarship, UTS Presidential Sc].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2017/3/4
Y1 - 2017/3/4
N2 - Chongqing is a province-level city region in China’s interior with a land area larger than many small countries. Limited scholarship tends to treat Chongqing as a new jurisdiction formed in relation to development of the Three Gorges Dam and reform of historic state-planned industry from the Mao era. This analysis turns to the complex process of land redistricting in a process of “territorial urbanization” that has also simultaneously reshaped the economy of Chongqing. By conceptualizing Chongqing as a dynamic administrative territory, this analysis defines changes in the relational configuration of its administrative divisions (xingzheng quhua) as a multi-faceted state strategy of governing land use change and the fiscal regime to realize infrastructure development. Especially by establishing districts in Chongqing, territorial urbanization works to enhance the funding capacity of the Chongqing government to develop larger, expansive infrastructure projects. This urban transformation of Chongqing demonstrates how processes of land use change and government funding, materializing in the built environment, are directly related to changes in state territorial configuration.
AB - Chongqing is a province-level city region in China’s interior with a land area larger than many small countries. Limited scholarship tends to treat Chongqing as a new jurisdiction formed in relation to development of the Three Gorges Dam and reform of historic state-planned industry from the Mao era. This analysis turns to the complex process of land redistricting in a process of “territorial urbanization” that has also simultaneously reshaped the economy of Chongqing. By conceptualizing Chongqing as a dynamic administrative territory, this analysis defines changes in the relational configuration of its administrative divisions (xingzheng quhua) as a multi-faceted state strategy of governing land use change and the fiscal regime to realize infrastructure development. Especially by establishing districts in Chongqing, territorial urbanization works to enhance the funding capacity of the Chongqing government to develop larger, expansive infrastructure projects. This urban transformation of Chongqing demonstrates how processes of land use change and government funding, materializing in the built environment, are directly related to changes in state territorial configuration.
KW - Chongqing
KW - district
KW - land use change
KW - taxation
KW - territorial urbanization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85017125874&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15387216.2017.1312474
DO - 10.1080/15387216.2017.1312474
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85017125874
SN - 1538-7216
VL - 58
SP - 201
EP - 230
JO - Eurasian Geography and Economics
JF - Eurasian Geography and Economics
IS - 2
ER -