Cross-border Urban Governance in Hong Kong: The Role of State in a Globalizing City-Region

The rapid development in the Hong Kong-Pearl River Delta (PRD) city-region has taken place alongside complicated cross-border governance. The framework of time-space envelopes (TSEs) is adopted for a study of cross-border governance in Hong Kong, especially in the role of the state, that is, the Hon...

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Published inThe Professional geographer Vol. 56; no. 4; pp. 530 - 543
Main Author Shen, Jianfa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Taylor & Francis Group 01.11.2004
Blackwell Publishing
Blackwell
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Asia
Bgi / Prodig
Borders
China
cross-border city-region
Geography
Globalization
Governance
Government
Hong Kong
Regional studies
State
Urban areas
urban governance
Guangdong
Hong Kong
China
Economic growth
Town
Geopolitics
Regional integration
Regional development
Management
Governance
Free trade
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Summary:The rapid development in the Hong Kong-Pearl River Delta (PRD) city-region has taken place alongside complicated cross-border governance. The framework of time-space envelopes (TSEs) is adopted for a study of cross-border governance in Hong Kong, especially in the role of the state, that is, the Hong Kong government, in cross-border urban governance. This article argues that tension- free regional integration has never existed due to a complex governance network. The shift from "cross-border protectionism" to "cross-border free trade zone" in Hong Kong's cross-border urban governance since 2001 is a result of the rearticulation of the state cutting through the geoeconomic and geopolitical TSEs.
Bibliography:This article is based on research funded by a direct research grant of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, project code 2020659. Thanks are due to Truman A. Hartshorn, the editor of this journal, and three anonymous referees for constructive comments and suggestions.
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ISSN:0033-0124
1467-9272
DOI:10.1111/j.0033-0124.2004.00446.x