Beyond variegation: The territorialisation of states, communities and developers in large-scale developments in Johannesburg, Shanghai and London

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dc.contributor.authorRobinson, Jennifer; Wu, Fulong; Harrison, Philip; Wang, Zheng; Todes, Alison; Dittgen, Romain; Attuyer, Katia
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-19T12:17:56Z
dc.date.available2024-08-19T12:17:56Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentThe South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning
dc.description.abstractLarge-scale urban development projects are a significant format of urban expansion and renewal across the globe. As generators of governance innovation and indicators of the future city in each urban context, large-scale development projects have been interpreted within frameworks of ‘variegations’ of wider circulating processes, such as neoliberalisation or financialisation. However, such projects often entail significant state support and investment, are strongly linked to a wide variety of transnational investors and developers and are frequently highly contested in their local environments. Thus, each project comes to fruition in a distinctive regulatory context, often as an exception to the norm, and each emerges through complex interactions over a long period of time amongst an array of actors. We therefore seek to broaden the discussion from an analytical focus on variegated globalised processes to consider three large-scale urban development projects (in Shanghai, Johannesburg and London) as distinctive (transcalar) territorialisations. Using an innovative comparative approach, we outline the grounds for a systematic analytical conversation across mega-urban development projects in very different contexts. Initially, comparability rests on the shared features of large-scale developments – that they are multi-jurisdictional, involve long time scales and bring significant financing challenges. Comparing three development projects, we are able to interrogate, rather than take for granted, how a range of wider processes, circulating practices, transcalar actors and territorial regulatory formations composed specific urban outcomes in each case. Thinking across these diverse cases provides grounds for rebuilding understandings of urban development politics.
dc.description.submitterBongi Mputhi
dc.facultyFaculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
dc.identifier.otherDOI: 10.1177/00420980211064159
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/40201
dc.journal.titleBeyond variegation: The territorialisation of states, communities and developers in large-scale developments in Johannesburg, Shanghai and London
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUrban Studies Journal
dc.relation.ispartofseries59; 8
dc.schoolSchool of Architecture and Planning
dc.subjectcomparative urbanism || developers || financing || large-scale urban development || state–community relations || urban politics
dc.titleBeyond variegation: The territorialisation of states, communities and developers in large-scale developments in Johannesburg, Shanghai and London
dc.typeArticle
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