Overview
- Examines how the Chinese government has proactively engaged the nine cities
- Focuses on critical reflections upon how the call for mega-cities development
- Draws comparative and international insights from other well-established bay economies
Part of the book series: Social Policy and Development Studies in East Asia (SPDSEA)
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This book examines critically how the Chinese government has proactively engaged the nine cities and two special administrative regions in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) in Southern China for deeper collaborations in order to transform the country from the “World Factory” to become a leading world economy in innovation and entrepreneurialism. While most of the existing research related to China’s GBA development offers the economic and technological advancement perspectives, this book focuses on critical reflections upon how the call for megacity development and deeper regional collaborations in the Bay Area will affect people’s livelihoods, social integration and urban governance. The central theme of this book builds around “Cities, Social Cohesion and Governance.” Based upon policy and document analysis, first-hand fieldwork and surveys, and intensive interviews with major stakeholders responsible for pushing the Greater Bay Area development, this book offers not only regional perspectives in analyzing the Greater Bay Area development through comparing and contrasting development experiences within the country’s different bay economies like the Shanghai and Zhejiang Bay Area and Bei**g and Bohai Bay Area. The present book also draws comparative and international insights from other well- established bay economies like Tokyo Bay, Florida Bay and New York Bay Areas when analyzing the development in the GBA in China.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Ka Ho Mok is the Vice President and concurrently Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy of Lingnan University. Before joining Lingnan, he was the Vice President (Research and Development) and Chair Professor of Comparative Policy of The Hong Kong Institute of Education and the Associate Dean and Professor of Social Policy, Faculty of Social Sciences of The University of Hong Kong.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cities and Social Governance Reforms
Book Subtitle: Greater Bay Area Development Experiences
Editors: Ka Ho Mok
Series Title: Social Policy and Development Studies in East Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9531-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-9530-8Published: 14 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-9533-9Published: 14 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-9531-5Published: 13 May 2022
Series ISSN: 3005-026X
Series E-ISSN: 3005-0278
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 200
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Development Economics, Entrepreneurship, Social Policy, Public Policy