The Role of Villages and Townships in Informal Land Development in   China: An Investigation on the City Fringe of Beijing

doi:10.3390/su8030255

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	The Role of Villages and Townships in Informal Land Development in China: An Investigation on the City Fringe of Beijing
	Zhao, Pengjun ; Zhang, Mengzhu
刊名	SUSTAINABILITY
	2016
关键词	township government informal housing urban growth informal land development decentralization CONTEMPORARY CHINA URBAN-DEVELOPMENT GROWTH COALITION SYSTEM
DOI	10.3390/su8030255
英文摘要	The past decades have witnessed a number of informal land developments on the urban fringe in China although many strict state regulations have been made to control this. The dual urban rural land system is widely believed to be one major determinant of informal developments in the existing literature. However, the important role of local villages and townships are often neglected. This paper aims to shed light on this by looking at the gated informal housing communities in Beijing as a case study. It investigates the role of villages and townships in informal land development and the conflicts of interest that arise with state regulations in the context of political decentralization. The results of analysis show that township governments have an ambivalent attitude or even give tacit approval to informal land development in villages since these informal developments actually bring economic benefits to local villagers and themselves. The situation seems to be worse as townships have poor fiscal capacity and a growing administrative responsibility for improvement of local development in the context of decentralization. Villages are keen to capture economic benefits from informal land development with help from private developers. As a result, a local, informal coalition between townships, villages, and private developers emerged at the grass roots level. This presents a major challenge to the state regulations designed for sustainable urban growth management.; NSFC [41571147]; SCI(E); SSCI; ARTICLE; pengjun.zhao@pku.edu.cn; mengzhu.zhang@pku.edu.cn; 3; 8
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/438509]
专题	城市与环境学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhao, Pengjun,Zhang, Mengzhu. The Role of Villages and Townships in Informal Land Development in China: An Investigation on the City Fringe of Beijing[J]. SUSTAINABILITY,2016.
APA	Zhao, Pengjun,&Zhang, Mengzhu.(2016).The Role of Villages and Townships in Informal Land Development in China: An Investigation on the City Fringe of Beijing.SUSTAINABILITY.
MLA	Zhao, Pengjun,et al."The Role of Villages and Townships in Informal Land Development in China: An Investigation on the City Fringe of Beijing".SUSTAINABILITY (2016).