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China’s Pro-growth Urban Planning in Rapid Urbanization
Resource mobilization and responsiveness to market change
Urban planning should be an effective tool for maintaining status quo interests and establishing order for the land market. Planning as a positive instrument for socioeconomic change is demonstrated in the exercise of plan-making. However, there are no mechanisms in the planning system to generate development initiatives and thus to guarantee positive implementation of plans. China’s pro-growth urban planning paradigm emerges from the unique historical circumstances. Post-1978 deliberate urbanization results from pre-1978 suppressed urbanization which created great shortages of urban land and premises.
Huge demand for physical accommodation and great urban expansion hatch out a planning system which should fulfill the expiration of a growing economy. Both instruments of strategic concept plans and the flexible development control regime are listed by the local developmental state cannot be ignored as one of the important contributing factors to the spectacular economic growth. The essence of the pro-growth urban planning is three-fold.
Preference is given to newly emerging interests over status quo interests, land revenues are mobilized to develop quality infrastructure and public facilities, and planning is made responsive to market change. Nevertheless, a real long-term sustainable growth, which is not promised by the existing planning practice, requires further institutional change to the transitional paradigm of China’s urban planning. | | |
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