Da Lang Neighborhood is home to approximately 500,000 people, a majority of them migrants, Foto: Haotian Lin
Chinese urbanization through the lens of Da Lang
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Shenzhen is a city that has been raising eyebrows for years, because of its fast development and exceptional position. However, the everyday reality in Shenzhen can be unruly. As a city, Shenzhen mainly thinks in top-down strategies and simply adds new hardware – the sum of infrastructure, buildings and industries – in order to encourage urban and therefore economic growth. It is less interested in the question of which existing social dynamics need to be accepted or improved in order to …
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Linda Vlassenrood is Programme Director at the International New Town Institute.