Holdout, Obedience, and Transmutation: The Redevelopment of Chengzhongcun in Guangzhou
Speaker: CHEN Hong
(Assistant Professor, School of Geography, South China Normal University)
Time: 12:30 p.m., Friday, 4 April 2014
Venue: Room 401 Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK
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The Chinese word “chengzhongcun” means "villages-in-the-city" in English. It is a distinctive phenomenon in the process of Chinese state-led urbanization, and is characterized by the maintenance of collective land ownership and a landscape of self-built multi-story buildings that house millions of rural migrants in Chinese cities. As the “half-urban-and-half-rural” entity was viewed as “backward”, the Guangzhou Municipal Government has carried out a range of redevelopment plans since 2000. Through examining the role of actors (including local governments, rural collectives and individuals), the changes of social and cultural factors, and the transformation of spatial reconstruction, this talk will present initial findings from a case study of several chengzhongcun in Guangzhou. In particular, a radical ten-year “elimination” redevelopment plan announced in 2009, which aims to demolish the 138 chengzhongcun within the municipality by 2020 will be examined.
The seminar will be conducted in English
ALL INTERESTED ARE WELCOME
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