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Abstract
This paper responds to the revival of regionalism in the past two decades by showing that such a re-emergence is unequal. Comparing the practice of regional planning in China and England, this paper has demonstrated that the party-state in China and the liberal-democratic state in England have responded differently to this revival and developed different framework for regional administration and planning. These variations have not only elaborated planners' concern about planning practice in a ‘context of difference’ from social dimension to geographical variations, but also echoed geographers' affirmation that global trends take on different characters in local setting.
Acknowledgements
This research is supported by the General Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (project code: HKBU242111). The author would like to thank Mandy Ho and Sandy Chan for their research assistance and the reviewers for their helpful comments.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.
Notes
1. The paper concerns regional planning in England. Policy is made for England by the UK government. There are separate arrangements for the other three countries in the UK.
2. Excluding Hong Kong and Macau.
3. Interview with a planning scholar at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, 6 September 2012.