'Property Rights Assembly' for Creative Transformation of Suburban Villages in West China

摘要

Since the 21st century, move of creative industries to urban fringe leads to the creative transformation of suburban villages and becomes a new path of urbanization. However, due to the fragmentation of property rights over the collective owned land, frequently emerged malicious rising rent always forces the artists retreat from the suburban villages and cease the urbanization process. This research aims at an introduction to a new property rights structure to release the right barrier for the creative transformation of suburban villages. The case study indicates that "property rights assembly" has been achieved through both the top-down assembly of property rights and the bottom-up cultivation of intermediary organization. By preserving the ownership to the collective or township government, distributing the development rights to the intermediary agency, and the land use rights to the artists, "property rights assembly" managed to offer a stable property rights environment for the creative transformation of suburban villages.