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Rescaling China’s rural–urban frontier: Exception as norm in the access to development / Zeuthen, Jesper Willaing

Zeuthen, Jesper Willaing	Journal Article
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This article examines how zoning – awarding exceptional status to selected sites – has been used as a governance tool to regulate access to land made available through land-use changes on the outskirts of Chengdu between 2007 and 2018. By studying these claims to exceptional status and the implementation of associated policies at the local level, the article seeks to demonstrate how zoning reconfigures power locally. The article argues that zoning delivers fast, socially controllable urbanization. The boundaries enforced through zoning offer less-privileged areas unique political and economic opportunities. Since zoning carries many advantages and is ultimately governed by the state, its implementation enforces state authority.

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Urbanization ; Resettlement ; Local Governance ; Rescaling ; Zoning ; Chengdu

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Rescaling regional identities: communicating thick and thin regional identities / Terlouw, Kees

Terlouw, Kees	Journal Article
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Rescaling ; Regional Identities ; Rescaling - Statehood ; Neo-Regional Economic Identity

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Restructuring locality: practice, identity and place-making on the German-Polish border / Sandberg, Marie

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Taking cities as analytical entry points for investigating practice, identity and place-making, this article explores the differential restructurings of locality in the twin cities of Görlitz and Zgorzelec on the German-Polish border. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it shows how the local cities′ leaderships are attempting to wrestle the cities out of their downmarket positioning in the global economy. Deploying a performative research strategy of methodological relationalism, the article examines intersections between these cities′ strategies of situating local youth within urban regeneration and cross-border projects and local youth′s preferences for engaging in other kinds of place-making. By ‘seeing’ the cities in border regions through practices of place-making within the multiscalar processes of urban regeneration, new insights about ‘place’ are generated in which city branding is not the only kind of local restructuring to be acknowledged.

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Performativity ; Rescaling ; Place-Making ; Methodological Relationalism ; Practised Space ; German-Polish Border

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