4.6 Article

The Hybrid Spatialities of Post-Industrial Beijing: Communism, Neoliberalism, and Brownfield Redevelopment

Journal

SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 12, Issue 12, Pages -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su12125029

Keywords

urban brownfield; post-industrial; hybrid spatiality; Beijing; Fatou

Funding

  1. National Science Foundation of China [41901154, 41530751]
  2. National Social Science Foundation of China [17VDL008]
  3. Project of Bureau of International Cooperation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [131A11KYSB20170014]
  4. Strategic Priority Research Program (A) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDA19040403]
  5. Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program (STEP) [2019QZKK1007]
  6. China Scholarship Council [201806010313]

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While the redevelopment of urban brownfield sites in China has received much attention, the role of political ideology in this process is usually downplayed or sidelined to a set of stylized assumptions. This paper invites giving a greater analytical focus to the evolving and nonorthodox nature of China's politico-ideological model as a factor shaping urban change and redevelopment. The paper provides an analytical framework integrating multi-level and evolutionary perspectives while exploring the experiences of the formation and post-industrial redevelopment of brownfield sites in Beijing. The analysis demonstrates that neoliberal economic policies and the communist political doctrine are co-constitutive in the production of China's post-industrial urban space. This produces a sense of spatial hybridity that combines and co-embeds what may be assumed to be mutually exclusive.

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