Projecting Urban Villages in Shenzhen

The creation of Urban Villages in Shenzhen and other Chinese cities experiencing rapidgrowth is a product of the confrontation of two systems of land ownership in China. In a citythat has grown from 30,000 inhabitants in 1980 to somewhere around 12 million inhabitants35 years later, urban development has pushed through the peri-urban zone and consumedland in and around rural areas. Today 241 urban villages, or chengzhongcun, in Shenzhenremain as islands in a sea of urbanism, operating simultaneously as ‘other’ spaces as well asactive colluders in the continuing urbanization of Shenzhen.

Volume Editors
Robert Corser & Sharon Haar

ISBN
978-1-944214-03-6