| ID | 122936 |
| Title Proper | Urban planning goes rural |
| Other Title Information | conceptualising the new village |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Bray, David |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | 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. |
| `In' analytical Note | China Perspectives Vol. 2013, No.3; 2013: p.53-62 |
| Journal Source | China Perspectives Vol. 2013, No.3; 2013: p.53-62 |
| Key Words | Rural Urbanisation ; Urban Planning ; Built Environment ; Rural Social Change |