To examine the origins characteristics and outcomes of resilient governance with Chinese
characteristics this open access book takes Guangzhou a typical Chinese city from 1990 to
2015 as an example. Through participant observation semi-structured interviews and the
collection of secondary data this book finds that (1) the institutional context can be
described as an authoritarian land-oriented pro-growth regime (2) there are three phases with
different patterns of governance: the Primitive Market Phase (1990-1998) the Pure Government
Phase (1998-2006) and the Multiple Players Phase (2006-2015) (3) redevelopment can serve as a
model of resilient governance because it changes in time in a dynamic environment to maximise
economic growth (4) an authoritarian land-oriented pro-growth regime is the key to support
such a resilient governance model. This is an open access book.
