The Mechanism And Its Countermeasures Of Imbalanced Politics In Urban Residential Redevelopment Projects During The Period Of Institutional Transition

During China's Urbanization, which is a compressed process, the redevelopment of urban space has been a solution to resource and environment constraints, a basic and critical strategy to achieve urban modernization, and it is integrated into globalization and is to promote economic and social restructuring. At the backdrop of institutional transition, China's urban space redevelopment must be a highly complex process-not only updating the city's physical structure, redistributing social power and key field of urban politics, but also spatially expressing f transitional social relations and reorganizing of the urban social space. Redevelopment of urban space in a transitional China has provided a meaningful subject for urban geography and urban space.This thesis takes the redevelopment of urban residential space on state-owned land as study object in order to reveal the complicated processes and relationships in urban redevelopment. First of all, the thesis start its empirical research with the introduction of two cases on urban redevelopment, one is the city demolition case in Jiahe County of Hunan Province, the other is the redevelopment case of Laochengnan(urban historical blocks) of Nanjing. With in-depth study of the game process and complex interest relationship in residential redevelopment, the article summarizes that the typical models of social games in nowadays urban residential redevelopment nowadays of China. Firstly, main participants involved in interest games and the regulatory environment compose the framework of the game system during residential redevelopment. Secondly, according to participants' interests level in the redevelopment projects, the whole game system can be regarded as two circles with the same center, the inner one is the core sub-circle, the outer one is a random complementary sub-circle; Thirdly, the core sub-circle is characterized by non-balanced relations between local government, real estate developers, and the owners of house property. However, the subject of the outer circle will intervene in local interest games in certain cases, thereby promoting the mechanism of non-equilibrium game shifting to an equilibrium one, even through the core characteristic of interest games in urban development is non-equilibrium game.To explain the non-equilibrium mechanism of urban redevelopment in transitional China, this thesis takes a further perspective of political and economic analysis to reconsider the non-balance relationship between key participants in redevelopment games(the core sub-circle in type game models). The essential mechanism of non-equilibrium games is that local government and the capital interests form an "alliance", which called "growth machine" in western academics. In the background of institutional transition, "growth machine" has become a structural phenomenon in contemporary urban China. However, citizens had to game with "growth machine" as a way of personal negotiations in residential redevelopment projects. As a result, the citizens are difficult to form a strong force to change the non-equilibrium game mechanism. As a representative of public interest, urban planning did not exercise the duties of safeguarding the public interest because of its inherent flaws, but it, to some extent, has become a technical tool to assist the growth machine. In the context of China's transition, mechanism of this non-equilibrium game enhanced the return of capital investment, as well as improved the efficiency of reconstruction in urban space as the cost of economic loss and sustainable development deficit of indigenous peoples. As a conclusion, the redevelopment approach should be a profound reflection. In the end, several fundamental solutions are proposed against the un-equality of participating powers in "urban space politics".This section is as follows:Chapterâ… . Foreword. This chapter includes research background, including relative definitions, and a review of the practices and researches of domestic and foreign urban redevelopment. This chapter starts from introducing the importance of urban space redevelopment in a transitional China, which is the precondition of the researching thinking and methods.Chapterâ…¡. The status quo of non-equilibrium games in residential redevelopment projects in transitional urban China. This chapter firstly introduces Jiahe(Hunan Province) and Nanjing house demolition case, and then summed up the general mode of games in redevelopment projects on the base of in-depth analysis of re-development process and relations between various stakeholders.Chapterâ…¢, the theoretical explanations of non-equilibrium games in residential redevelopment. This chapter first starts from explaining why the re-development of urban space has become the focus of the political game with theoretical arguments. And it applies the "government, economic elites, the public and city planning, "which is a political and economic analytical framework, to clarify the formation of the non-balanced game mechanism in the inner loop of residential redevelopment. Chapter IV. Reflection on the redevelopment of residential area in the non-balanced game mechanism. After the redevelopment is completed, those who were forced to move away to the indemnificatory communities sponsored by the government in city's outskirts This thesis will introspect on the current practice in residential redevelopment from the perspective of the evaluation on these indemnificatory communities' developing capacities.Chapter V. Countermeasures to city dwelling area in transitional period. Proceeding from how to build the mechanism of balanced game and benefit sharing, this chapter probed into the solutions for the predicaments facing us during city dwelling redevelopment in transitional days.