AccScience Publishing / JCAU / Volume 5 / Issue 2 / DOI: 10.36922/jcau.0431
Cite this article
66
Download
1513
Views
Journal Browser
Volume | Year
Issue
Search
News and Announcements
View All
ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Renewal of industrial space in Hong Kong and Shanghai: Policy review and comparison

Lingyue Li1* Yiwen Chen1 Yueli Xu1
Show Less
1 Department of Urban Planning, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shanghai, China
Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism 2023, 5(2), 0431 https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.0431
Submitted: 13 April 2023 | Accepted: 9 June 2023 | Published: 28 June 2023
© 2023 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

Industrial space renewal is a strategic planning choice for cities undergoing de-/post-industrialization against the backdrop of land resource constraints. This study reviewed industrial space renewal policies in Hong Kong and Shanghai from a political economy perspective. With the analytical framework of political economy, the study reveals that, in the power flow of industrial space renewal (stressed on ownership), Hong Kong’s private sectors are active, and Shanghai is dominated by public power. In the political and economic environment, differences in government and market forces lead to different planning models and outcomes. Industrial building renewal in Hong Kong is mostly progressive due to diversified developmental forces, whereas industrial land renewal in Shanghai is mostly comprehensive and rational, assisted by blueprint-based planning. Pros and cons are rooted in both cities. Thus, an in-depth examination is of great significance for better decision-making in the future.

Keywords
Reuse of industrial building
Transition of industrial land
Restructuring
State-market
China
Funding
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
References

Andres, L., & Gresillon, B. (2013). Cultural brownfields in European cities: A new mainstream object for cultural and urban policies. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 19: 40-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2011.625416

 

Bernt, M. (2009). Partnerships for demolition: The governance of urban renewal in East Germany’s shrinking cities. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33: 754-769. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2009.00856.x

 

Chan, R. C. K., & Li, L. (2017). Entrepreneurial city and the restructuring of urban space in shanghai expo. Urban Geography, 38: 666-686. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2016.1139909

 

Ding, F., & Wu, J. (2017). The evolution of the concept of urban regeneration and the practical connotation in today’s society. Urban Planning Forum, 6: 87-95. (in Chinese)

 

Doucet, B. (2013). Variations of the entrepreneurial city: Goals, roles and visions in Rotterdam’s Kop Van Zuid and the Glasgow Harbour megaprojects. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37: 2035-2051. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2012.01182.x

 

Feng, L., & Tang, Z. (2013). The renewal of allocated industrial land in the perspective of property right system: The case of Hongkou district, Shanghai. Urban Planning Forum, 5: 23-29. (in Chinese)

 

Golland, A., & Watkins, C. (2002). Greenfields, Brownfields and Housing Development. Oxford: Blackwell. Healey, P. (2006). Transforming governance: Challenges of institutional adaptation and a new politics of space1. European Planning Studies, 14: 299-320. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654310500420792

 

Iversen, T., & Cusack, T. R. (2000). The causes of welfare state expansion: Deindustrialization or globalization? World Politics, 52: 313-349. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0043887100016567

 

Kantor, P. (1996). The Dependent City Revisited: The Political Economy of Urban Development and Social Policy. Colorado: Westview Press.

 

Lefebvre, H. (1991). The Production of Space. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.

 

Li, J., & Chiu, L. H. R. (2017). Urban investment and development corporations, new town development and China’s local state restructuring-the case of Songjiang new town, Shanghai. Urban Geography, 39: 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2017.1382308

 

Li, L., & Chan, R. C. K. (2017a). Contesting China’s Engagement with neoliberal urbanism: An overview of the evolving policy and mismatches in urban China. Asian Education and Development Studies, 6: 44-56. https://doi.org/10.1108/AEDS-03-2016-0021

 

Li, L., & Chan, R. C. K. (2017b). Contesting China’s engagement with neoliberal urbanism: An overview of the evolving policy and mismatches in urban China. Asian Education and Development Studies, 6: 44-56. https://doi.org/10.1108/AEDS-03-2016-0021

 

Li, L., Xian, S., & Qi, Z. (2022). Planning for eco-city in china: Policy mobility in path creation of Eco-Zhuhai. Sustainable Development Research, 4: 27. https://doi.org/10.30560/sdr.v4n2p27

 

Liao, H. F., & Chan, R. C. K. (2011). Industrial relocation of Hong Kong manufacturing firms: Towards an expanding industrial space beyond the Pearl River Delta. GeoJournal, 76: 623-639. 10.1007/s10708-009-9316-3

 

Lindblom, C. E. (1959). The science of “Muddling through”. Public Administration Review, 19: 79-88. https://doi.org/10.2307/973677

 

Logan, J. R., & Molotch, H. L. (1987). Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press.

 

Marshall, R. (2014). Waterfronts in Post-industrial Cities. New York: Routledge.

 

Ng, M. K. (1999). Political economy and urban planning: A comparative study of Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. Progress in Planning, 51: 1-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-9006(98)00027-0

 

Peck, J., & Tickell, A. (2002). Neoliberalizing space. Antipode, 34: 380-404. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8330.00247

 

Shen, J. (2000). The urban political economics and urban governance. City Planning Reivew, 24: 8-11. (in Chinese). Smith, N. (1992). Geography, Difference and the Politics of Scale. UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

 

Stone, C. N. (1989). Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946-1988. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. Taylor, N. (1998). Urban Planning Theory Since 1945. United States: SAGE Publications.

 

Xian, S., & Chen, H. (2015). Revitalisation of industrial buildings in Hong Kong: New measures, new constraints? Habitat International, 47: 298-306. https://doi.org.10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.02.004

 

Yeh, A. G. O., & Xu, J. (2008). Regional cooperation in the Pan-Pearl River Delta: A formulaic aspiration or a new imagination? Built Environment, 34: 408-426. https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.34.4.408

 

Zhang, J., & Chen, H. (2016). Understanding Chinese urban planning in the growth-first politics: Based on a review of planning for growth: Urban and regional planning in China. Urban Planning International, 31: 16-20. (in Chinese)

Share
Back to top
Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism, Electronic ISSN: 2717-5626 Published by AccScience Publishing