GGR223H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Utopia, Sustainable City, Ecological Modernization

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The sino-singapore tianjin eco-city (sstec) is a flagship urban mega-project currently under (cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:374)ear tia(cid:374)ji(cid:374), chi(cid:374)a(cid:859)s fourth largest (cid:272)it(cid:455) Many eco-city mega-projects have been highly publicized since 2000, yet few have moved past the planning stages. We interrogate the marketing and discursive construction of eco-urban visions in tianjin eco-city. We situate our research within the remit of recent literature that seeks to critically analyse the envisioning of eco-city projects by planners and developers. In the third section, we place eco-city developments within the wider context of an ecologically modernizing trajectory towards eco-ur(cid:271)a(cid:374)is(cid:373) a(cid:374)d the (cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of a (cid:858)har(cid:373)o(cid:374)ious so(cid:272)iet(cid:455)(cid:859) i(cid:374) In the penultimate section we analyse the ways in which the environment of tianjin eco-city is being marketed and socially constructed by real-estate developers, before offering some concluding observations. It is within this context that the concept of the eco-city started to emerge in the late twentieth century.

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