With rapid urbanization and population growth in urban areas, urban development is
necessary and urgent. However, with tight land supply from expropriating new
farmland, redeveloping urban villages at central urban area would be full of potential.
Basically, an urban village is the byproduct of rapid urbanization, with
collective-owned non-agricultural use land surrounded by a state-owned urban area.
Because of the particular land ownership structure in urban villages, conventional
urban redevelopment methods are not suitable for the redevelopment of urban
villages, public-private partnerships had been introduced into urban redevelopment
to integrate the power and resources of private sector into the process of urban
redevelopment with a legal contract, to form a collaboration between public and
private sections, and to share the profits and benefits. A study on such partnerships in
the redevelopment of urban villages could be instructive and enlightening for the
future redevelopment of rural non-agricultural land in China.
The major aim of the research is to discover the conditions under which partnerships
for the redevelopment of urban villages could be established in China. The
redevelopment of three urban villages in Shenzhen, namely the villages of Yunong,
Gangxia and Huanggang, were thoroughly studied. A research framework has been
established by examining the power relations of such partnerships and has been
tailored to the scenario of redevelopment of urban village in China. The partnership
synergy between local government, urban village communities and private
developers, and role conflicts of each participants have been analyzed by considering
the impact factors inherent in the institutional context of municipal government and
the cultural context of urban villages in Shenzhen. These factors affect the
composition, the process and the outcome of partnership in redevelopment of urban
villages.
The study found that because institutional support and land resource are exclusively
and irreplaceably provided by the local government and the urban village, local
government with systematic power is the primary partner who influences the
partnership in redevelopment of urban villages the most. The local government
arranges and executes the redevelopment timetable, decides the objective of
redevelopment and devises rules of redistributing redevelopment profits. Under some
conditions like better location, larger size and well-organization and efficient
leadership, the secondary dominator namely village community becomes more
important on the power balance of partnership. Private developer has no unique
advantage in the partnership and could only be the follower of other two partners.
Case studies from different cities with diversified institutional and cultural context are
expected to be included into the future research areas. / published_or_final_version / Real Estate and Construction / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:HKU/oai:hub.hku.hk:10722/174356 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | 李昕, Li, Xin |
| Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
| Source Sets | Hong Kong University Theses |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | PG_Thesis |
| Source | http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47278808 |
| Rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works., Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License |
| Relation | HKU Theses Online (HKUTO) |
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