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Entrepreneurship and Suburbanism: A Case of Pearl River Delta, China

Li Zhigang

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This study examines recent transformation of the suburbia in Pearl

River Delta, China. With the perspective of territorialization, it asserts that

there are three types of sociospatial reconfiguration, namely, assimilation,

integration, and adaptation, such that it highlights the complexity of suburbia

transformation in post-reform China. With several typical cases such as the

south suburb of Guangzhou, Luogang New City, and transitional suburban

villages, I interrogate a diverse landscape in terms of the transformation of

China’s suburbia. Moreover, I argue that the suburbanization of China is

attributed to the rise of entrepreneurship, so that suburban communities or

authorities retort to such efforts as local entrepreneurialism, entrepreneurial

state, and resource mining feature by bricolage, so to take the risk of market,

creation, as well as (re)territorialization. Positively, entrepreneurship provides

a significant basis for the recent rise of suburbia in Pearl River Delta, which

brings about a number of models including both top-down and bottom-up

struggles. As such, we highlight the significance of entrepreneurship and its

relation with (re) territorialization, particularly to and for such regions as

developing economy, transitional economy, etc.


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