Beyond Growth Machine Politics: Understanding State Politics and National Political Mandates in China’s Urban Redevelopment

This paper examines growth machine politics operating in shrinking cities. Instead of de-growth politics logics emerging in shrinking cities, the paper finds, through an empirical study of Zonguldak, a shrinking mining city in Turkey, a politics that is better described as another variant of growth machine politics. Invigorated by the difficulties encountered in the implementation of state-driven growth agendas, and the subsequent reactions of local stakeholders, Zonguldak’s emerging policy agenda maintains a distance from the discourse of growth and instead adopts such themes as ecology, industrial heritage, quality of life and liveability when reframing and deploying a variety of conventional practices to make the city attractive for investment. In so doing, a broad coalition of diverse local interests are effectively brought together, and this paper suggests that these dynamics characterise a politics that is better described as adaptive response to align with growth machine politics. To explore this, the paper builds on an exploratory research design that complements secondary and documentary data analysis of the city’s economic and population trends and key policy and planning documents with an analysis of unstructured interviews with local policy makers and focus groups with local stakeholders.

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Growth Machine Politics

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies ◽

10.1002/9781118568446.eurs0128 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-9

Author(s):

Igor Vojnovic

Keyword(s):

Growth Machine ◽

Machine Politics

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A Risk Evaluation of Urban Redevelopment Procedures

Studies in Regional Science ◽

10.2457/srs.40.617 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 40 (3) ◽

pp. 617-632 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mamoru IMANISHI ◽

Saburo SAITO

Keyword(s):

Risk Evaluation ◽

Urban Redevelopment

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Planetary gentrification and urban (re)development

Urban Development Issues ◽

10.2478/udi-2019-0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 61 (1) ◽

pp. 5-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Loretta Lees

Keyword(s):

Low Income ◽

Policy Making ◽

Large Scale ◽

Urban Redevelopment ◽

Urban Transformation ◽

Small Scale ◽

Income Groups ◽

Low Income Groups

Abstract Gentrification is no-longer, if it ever was, a small scale process of urban transformation. Gentrification globally is more often practised as large scale urban redevelopment. It is state-led or state-induced. The results are clear – the displacement and disenfranchisement of low income groups in favour of wealthier in-movers. So, why has gentrification come to dominate policy making worldwide and what can be done about it?

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URBAN DISPLACEMENT AND LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES: THE CASE OF THE AMERICAN CITY FROM THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY

International Journal of Architectural Research Archnet-IJAR ◽

10.26687/archnet-ijar.v10i2.936 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 06 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jason Knight ◽

Mohammad Gharipour

Keyword(s):

Urban Communities ◽

Low Income ◽

Urban Redevelopment ◽

Minority Populations ◽

The People ◽

History Of ◽

Late Twentieth ◽

Cultural Connections ◽

American Cities ◽

Late Twentieth Century

How can urban redevelopment benefit existing low-income communities? The history of urban redevelopment is one of disruption of poor communities. Renewal historically offered benefits to the place while pushing out the people. In some cases, displacement is intentional, in others it is unintentional. Often, it is the byproduct of the quest for profits. Regardless of motives, traditional communities, defined by cultural connections, are often disrupted. Disadvantaged neighborhoods include vacant units, which diminish the community and hold back investment. In the postwar period, American cities entered into a program of urban renewal. While this program cleared blight, it also drove displacement among the cities’ poorest and was particularly hard on minority populations clustered in downtown slums. The consequences of these decisions continue to play out today. Concentration of poverty is increasing and American cities are becoming more segregated. As neighborhoods improve, poorer residents are uprooted and forced into even more distressed conditions, elsewhere. This paper examines the history of events impacting urban communities. It further reviews the successes and failures of efforts to benefit low-income communities.

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