Changing Urban Renewal Policies in China
Policy Transfer and Policy Learning under Multiple Hierarchies
Authors: Romano, Giulia C.
Free Preview- Explores the micro-dynamics of transfer in a Chinese city
- Examines policy learning and policy translation in a local government in China
- Contributes to build knowledge about policy transfers to China
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"This is a very rich monograph, based on impressive fieldwork in China, which demonstrates excellent qualitative and ethnographic research skills, research integrity, and cultural perceptiveness in the analysis. This book will make a great contribution to the literature on policy transfer and and policy mobilities, and on urban politics in contemporary China, as it offers a rich understanding of the nitty-gritty practices of transferring and learning 'from abroad'."Claire Colomb, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the University College London, UK.
This book explores the concept of Careful Urban Renewal, a concept of urban renewal that originated in Berlin in the 1980s and that was proposed to Yangzhou, a Chinese city of the wealthy province of Jiangsu, in the early 2000s. It sets out to understand whether knowledge and ideas originating in a specific setting can be transferred to another locality thousands of miles away from the point of origin, and have the chance to change the policies and the practices of the destination city. The book shows that foreign ideas can inspire ambitious reforms of the policies of a single city, but that there also exist multiple challenges to policy learning and to the rooting of new ideas in local practices. To explore these challenges, this book develops an analysis of the micro-dynamics of policy transfer, showing that there exist multiple hierarchies to which a Chinese city can be subjected, intermittently opening or closing “windows for policy learning”. - About the authors
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Giulia C. Romano is Researcher at the Institute of East-Asian Studies of the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Her research focuses on policy diffusion in the field of urban governance and she has researched Political Science at Sciences Po - Paris. Her previous book (with Jean-François Di Meglio) is China’s Energy Security: A Multidimensional Perspective (2016).
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Studying the Transfer and Learning of Careful Urban Renewal in a Chinese City
Pages 1-25
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A Research Framework to Capture the Complexity of Policy Transfers
Pages 27-39
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The Chinese Paradigm of Urban Renewal in the Early 2000s
Pages 41-74
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Introducing a New Paradigm: The Delivery of Careful Urban Renewal to Yangzhou
Pages 75-115
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Towards the Establishment of a New Urban Renewal Paradigm
Pages 117-159
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Changing Urban Renewal Policies in China
- Book Subtitle
- Policy Transfer and Policy Learning under Multiple Hierarchies
- Authors
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- Giulia C. Romano
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-36008-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-36008-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-36007-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVII, 245
- Number of Illustrations
- 4 b/w illustrations
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