Small town development and rural urbanization in China

1999 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabe T. Wang ◽  
Xiaobo Hu
Keyword(s):  
Small Town ◽  
Rural Urbanization ◽  
Town Development ◽  
Urbanization In China

SMALL TOWN DEVELOPMENT IN THE PERIPHERY OF BIG CITIES IN CHINA

1996 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 71-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Haoguang ◽  
Xue Desheng
Keyword(s):  
Small Town ◽  
Town Development ◽  
Big Cities

Conforming with the urban ideal? ‘New urbanites’ in Rwanda’s emerging towns

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (0) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Ine Cottyn
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Urban Model ◽  
Town Development ◽  
Neoliberal Policies

The Rwandan government is taking a very directive approach to the process of urbanisation, based on an urban model that is strongly influenced by modernist discourses and guided by neoliberal policies. Its pursuit of an ideal of ‘modern urbanity’ in rapidly growing small towns implies an ideal type of modern urbanite; however, not everyone fits this ideal. The focus of this article is on those urban inhabitants who are considered to be on ‘the urban margins’. I argue that it is the practices of these people that constitute and define the flexible and mobile nature of the lived reality of small-town life that forms an essential part of African urbanisation and small-town development today. In the Rwandan case, rigidly sticking to the implementation of blueprint planning fails to recognise this bottom-up urbanisation, feeding the perception that urban areas are becoming an elite space.

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