报告题目：‘Featured town’ fever: The anatomy of a concept and its elevation to national policy in China
报告人： 苗 田
报告时间：2018年10月26日 15:00—17:00
报告地点：明伦校区新行政楼308会议室
主办单位：教育部人文社科重点研究基地黄河文明与可持续发展研究中心
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苗田，经济地理和规划专业博士，高级讲师，区域研究协会理事，国际学术期刊Regions、Regional Studies、Regional Science的编辑。主要研究领域为城市与发展、住房研究等，已发表大量相关学术论文，获得区域研究协会、英国经济和社会研究理事会等资助，主编《Making 21st Century Knowledge Complexes: Technopoles of the world revisited》(Routledge)，该著作获劳特里奇最佳图书提名奖。
学术报告主要内容：the suburbanisation process worldwide continues to generate significant urban contradictions. Yet the same process also calls forth planning innovations that seek to redress these development challenges. One such in China is the ‘Featured Town’ policy which has been plucked from its origins in Zhejiang province to national policy prominence. Drawing on a combination of secondary data and original interviews, this paper considers the origins and peculiarities of this planning model, its elevation within national policy and its likely prospects across China. Preliminary findings indicate that the Featured Town policy has fallen foul of many of the complications associated with wider dissemination of locally successful models. The interlock of local government capitalism and intrapreneurial state is the fundamental driver behind this Featured Town ‘fever’.
