| Titre | “Drawing on the Paper, Hanging it on the Wall”: Lingering Challenges for Planners to Navigate China's Planning System | |
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| Auteur | Ran Wei | |
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Revue | China perspectives |
| Numéro | no 143, 2025 Rethinking Global China through Migrants in the Margins: Precarity, Agency, and Multi-directional Mobility | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 41-52 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Using a heritage conservation project in Anyang as a case study, this paper explores the current challenges for planners to navigate China's planning system. It argues that, similar to decades ago, local governments still dominate the planning and implementation of local projects and reduce planners to technicians. To understand the root of this issue, it is necessary to properly situate planning within the political system. Characterised as fragmented authoritarianism, China's political system grants planners de jure power, yet without de facto power. In the meantime, the constant interplay between decentralisation and (re-)centralisation has actually centralised planning power in the local state, particularly local top leaders, making the local planning process more authoritarian than fragmented and further constraining planners' de facto power. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/19730 |
