Description
Book SynopsisThis book unravels China's new megaregional structure, new megaregional planning and development, new megaregional governance, and new regional planning system. It draws upon a diversity of megaregional cases: city clusters of the BeijingTianjinHebei region, Yangtze River delta region, and Greater Bay Area; and metropolitan circles of Chengdu, Hangzhou, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Zhengzhou.
Megaregions are the new form of Chinese-style urbanisation. China's new discourse of high-quality development' and new-type urbanisation' is reshaping its megaregional strategy. Imbalance and fragmentation characterise the diversity of megaregions - developed or developing, coastal or inland. The central goal of megaregional planning and governance is to achieve integrated, balanced development of them. Hu challenges the official notion of top-level design' that dominates the planning, governance, and development of China's megaregions. Instead, he argues for the importance of engag
Table of Contents
1 Megaregions and urban China 2 Planning megaregions 3 Developing metropolitan circles: Issues and challenges 4 The dragon’s head in spatial imaginary: Integrating Shanghai and the Yangtze River delta region 5 ‘One country, two cities’: Relational planning of Shenzhen and Hong Kong in the Greater Bay Area
