Apostolopoulou, E. orcid.org/0000-0002-8166-4639, Cheng, H. orcid.org/0000-0003-4076-3793, Silver, J. orcid.org/0000-0002-4870-2226 et al. (1 more author) (2024) Cities on the new silk road: the global urban geographies of China’s belt and road initiative. Urban Geography, 45 (6). pp. 1095-1114. ISSN 0272-3638
Abstract
Over the last decade, scholarship on China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), also called the New Silk Road, has burgeoned. However, it is only recently that analysis has interrogated the BRI as a driver of global urban transformation. In this paper, we advance an in-depth review of literature generated since 2013 that has critically examined relations between the BRI and urban-scale processes. Based on a categorization of studies into three areas, staging of the urban BRI, the building of BRI cities and living in BRI cities, we suggest that the urban is integral to the scope and impacts of the initiative. As the BRI goes into its second decade, we argue that BRI’s infrastructural spaces can be seen as new landscapes where novel kinds of urbanization are emerging, influencing patterns of socio-spatial contestation, and demanding new narratives of social change to make sense of cityscapes and urban futures worldwide.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group |
Keywords: | Urban geography; Belt and Road Initiative; New Silk Road; infrastructure-led development; China |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Faculty of Social Sciences Research Institute |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EUROPEAN COMMISSION - HORIZON 2020 947779 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 22 Jan 2025 11:07 |
Last Modified: | 13 Feb 2025 16:04 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/02723638.2023.2247283 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:221947 |