59 research outputs found
Institutions and individual strategies: how did job seekers respond to the changing employment environment in urban China?
Characteristics and related factors of nonfatal injuries among adolescents and college students in Shenzhen city of China
Local governments’ incentives and governing practices in low-carbon transition: A comparative study of solar water heater governance in four Chinese cities
Urban sustainability transitions have been increasingly imperative to address global environmental challenges, and local governments are expected to play a critical role. There is a pressing need to explore local governments’ underlying motivations and their impacts on governing practices. Taking China as an example, this paper builds an incentive matrix to distinguish the levels of local governments’ economic interest and environmental interest in specific low-carbon innovations and investigates how different incentive typologies affect their governing practices. By comparing four Chinese municipal governments’ incentives and governing practices in promoting solar water heater adoption, this paper finds that Chinese local governments’ environmental incentive is still not compelling or stable enough, while governments that are motivated by economic interests would resort to more substantial governance practices to promote the low-carbon innovations. These results indicate potential in latecomer cities in developing both economic and environmental incentives towards low-carbon innovations because green activities could also be favored if they are well aligned with local economic development
Plot by plot: plotting urbanism as an ordinary process of urbanization
With this paper, we analyse an ordinary urban process, which has received little attention so far and propose a new concept to take account of it: plotting urbanism. It is usually subsumed
under terms like “urban informality” or “incremental urbanism” and not studied as a distinct process. In comparing Lagos, Istanbul and Shenzhen we captured four defining features of
plotting urbanism: first, it unfolds in a piecemeal fashion with limited comprehensive planning. Second, it emerges from conflicts between multiple overlapping modes of territorial regulation, land tenure and property rights, which result in specific territorial compromises. Third, plotting is based on commodification of housing and land, which might accentuate socio-economic differentiations between property-owners, who often live in the same area, and their tenants. The term “plotting” highlights the key role of the plot in the process. It also alludes to strategic acts of collaboration for individual and collaborative benefit
Changing Land Policy and its Impact on Local Growth: The Experience of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, China, in the 1980s
The effects of residential patterns and Chengzhongcun housing on segregation in Shenzhen
Inequalities in Structural Social Capital and Health between Migrant and Local Hypertensive Patients
Monitoring ecosystem service change in the City of Shenzhen by the use of high‐resolution remotely sensed imagery and deep learning
Workplace segregation of rural migrants in urban China: A case study of Shenzhen using cellphone big data
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