Written in an accessible and rigorous manner, Patchell integrates agglomeration concepts with the Chinas Greater Bay Area (GBA) conditions to explain the regions rise, innovativeness, and resilience.
Chinas Greater Bay Area (GBA) previously referred to as the Pearl River Delta is one of the worlds largest megacity regions, and Chinas foremost technological, economic, social and cultural node. Patchell integrates agglomeration concepts with the GBAs conditions to explain the regions rise, innovativeness, and resilience. He reveals how the GBA works as differentiated and semi-interdependent systems, providing a window into the GBA and China, while also providing the basis for a comparative approach to megacities and mega regions.
Key topics discussed in the book include:
- the early development of the GBA, its mix of indigenous and exogenous investments and expertise, and the forces that compelled its upgrading from process manufacturing
- the regional strengths in clusters, transportation networks, and the regional innovation system
- the role of multi-level governance in balancing national directives, municipal autonomy and regional complementarities
- consequences of the GBAs agglomeration for social structure and mobility, communities, sustainable development and resilience for the future.
Written in an accessible and rigorous manner, this textbook is ideal for a course on this important region, for comparative courses on agglomeration and largescale urban development, and for people wanting greater understanding of urban processes and China.
