The hybrid spatialities of post-industrial Beijing: communism, neoliberalism, and brownfield redevelopment

Wang, Nyuying, Golubchikov, Oleg, Chen, Wei and Liu, Zhigao 2020. The hybrid spatialities of post-industrial Beijing: communism, neoliberalism, and brownfield redevelopment. Sustainability 12 (12) , 5029. 10.3390/su12125029

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Abstract

While the redevelopment of urban brownfield sites in China has received much attention, the role of political ideology in this process is usually downplayed or sidelined to a set of stylized assumptions. This paper invites giving a greater analytical focus to the evolving and nonorthodox nature of China’s politico-ideological model as a factor shaping urban change and redevelopment. The paper provides an analytical framework integrating multi-level and evolutionary perspectives while exploring the experiences of the formation and post-industrial redevelopment of brownfield sites in Beijing. The analysis demonstrates that neoliberal economic policies and the communist political doctrine are co-constitutive in the production of China’s post-industrial urban space. This produces a sense of spatial hybridity that combines and co-embeds what may be assumed to be mutually exclusive.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	MDPI
ISSN:	2071-1050
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	23 June 2020
Date of Acceptance:	16 June 2020
Last Modified:	08 Dec 2020 09:20
URI:	http://orca.cf.ac.uk/id/eprint/132740

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