Achieving Urban Spatial Justice In Distributing Urban Public Goods And Development Benefits:The Opportunities And Challenges Brought By China's Urban Renewal

Urban renewal is a process of social relationship adjusting and interests reallocating, as well as a process of urban social space re-modeling. The location of urban public goods and developing interests has close relationship with urban space, as different spaces have obvious discrepancy in terms of availability and cost to getting public goods. For this reason, re-modeling of urban space also means the transformation of relocation mode, and superior class in the urban is possible to exclude deprived class from benign urban space through capitalization of urban space, and thus realizing the occupation of urban public goods and developing interests. China's fast urban renewal posts challenge for urban spatial justice in terms of relocation, but also a good opportunity to realize the spatial justice.During China's fast urban renewal process, the competition for urban space is increasingly serious. This competition is for economic benefits from urban land upgrading, for residential rights, citizens'well-being and urban living rights. It is also relating to citizens'capability of participating. The distributive injustice of urban public goods and developmental benefits is the major source of many urban social conflicts. This injustice relates to the ownership of urban space, and for the most time turns into distributive urban spatial injustice. China is currently undergoing social and political transformation, and has to handle citizens'participation will. However, urban space conception is neglected form current urban policy, resulting in the disability of realizing urban distributional injustice and handling citizen's participation will. The objective of this research is to advocate urban space conception in urban public policy, and realizing distributive spatial justice through empowering spatial rights and participating rights to citizens.The originality of this dissertation, firstly, is that it discusses the distribution issue of urban public goods from a new angle, and tries to advocate the academic importance of urban space conception. In addition, this dissertation goes after the latest innovation trend of urban geography society- to re-orientate itself towards the study of 'ordinary cities', or cities off the map.