Wang Yu, Zhang Jingxiang, Wang Ziyi, Zhou Zihang

Keywords： City-Region; Rescaling; Shenzhen-Hong Kong Cooperation; Cross-border Governance; The Northern Metropolis of Hong Kong

Abstract：

In the context of globalization, “city-region” has become the core spatial carrier to enhance global competitiveness, and cross-border governance has gradually become the key topic of regional space research. Rescaling theory provides a powerful analytical tool for regional spatial production and regional governance. Based on the perspective of rescaling, this paper constructs the overall analysis framework of “capital-space-power”, and takes Shenzhen-Hong Kong city-region as an example. This paper briefly reviews the evolution of Shenzhen-Hong Kong relations and regional spatial planning in the context of globalization, and reveals the path characteristics and evolution trend of Shenzhen-Hong Kong city-region rescaling from three aspects: spatial pattern, motivation mechanism and scale level. It is found that the dominant position and interaction mechanism of “capital” and “power” have changed in the new round of scale reconstruction. It further focuses on the scale reconstruction of the Northern Metropolis of Hong Kong and the cross-border governance of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, points out the problems of the conflict between the old and new scales in the vertical process, the limitation of horizontal scale subjects to domain traps, the complex superposition of vertical scale levels, and puts forward strategic suggestions such as scale calibration and power adjustment response, the construction of regional scale platform, and the embedding of new scale levels into the existing scale framework.

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