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Statecraft Urbanism: Building Garden City in Shenzhen

At the heart of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone lies the Overseas Chinese Town (OCT), a regional icon known for its high-quality commodity housing, fancy coffee shops and restaurants, garden-like environment, and outdated theme parks. In the 1960s and the 1970s, it was a borderland that saw the escape of tens of thousands of mainlanders seeking refuge in Hong Kong, and a state farm housing the returning overseas Chinese from Vietnam and Indonesia. This talk traces the history of planning and building OCT following a garden city model in the mid-1980s and onwards under China’s Opening-up policies and “United Front” agenda. In this 1,500-acre development, tropical landscapes, narrow and winding roads, exquisite theme parks, and exotic architectural styles comprise a new strategy to integrate overseas elite groups into China’s economic reform. Designing and building the garden city forms a new alliance among state reformers, overseas business elites, and intellectuals within the real estate industry.