Space, Scale and the State: Reorganizing Urban Space in China

administrative area ASIA-PACIFIC STUDIES blue-stamp central government central-local relations Chan cities and changes city government city-leading county Council county-level city County-level units designated a county-level designated towns designation of cities deterritorialization economic development enterprises and individuals example expansion firms fiscal contracting fiscal expenditure Foshan Foshan city geographical scale globalization Guangdong HONG KONG INSTITUTE hukou INSTITUTE OF ASIA-PACIFIC interaction investment Jiangsu km² land local governments market economy Nanhai National People's Congress non-agricultural population non-hukou number of cities politically constructed process post-reform China prefectural-level city Prefectural-level units process of rescaling process of urbanization provincial government rearticulated reconfigured reform regulation reorganization of urban Reorganizing Urban Space rescaling of urbanization role rural migrants scalar scale theory Shanghai Shen and Huang Shenzhen social Space in China spatial state-sponsored urbanization status strategy system of city-leading tax revenues temporary population townships urban development urban district urban governments urbanization in China Walder Wang Zhang