{"id":8471,"date":"2026-09-02T16:09:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typesetter.hk\/2026\/09\/02\/article-urban-state-venturism-or-urbanization-of-state-capital-views-from-the-global-east\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T16:13:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T08:13:56","slug":"article-urban-state-venturism-or-urbanization-of-state-capital-views-from-the-global-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typesetter.hk\/en\/2026\/09\/02\/article-urban-state-venturism-or-urbanization-of-state-capital-views-from-the-global-east\/","title":{"rendered":"[Article] Urban State Venturism or Urbanization of State Capital? Views from the Global East"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Author: Hyun Bang Shin<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em>Dialogues in Human Geography<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/20438206241289378\">https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/20438206241289378<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abstract<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While appreciating the novelty of conceptualizing urban state venturism, this commentary proposes that the state&#8217;s role as capital can be clearly evidenced by the urbanization of state capital, which involves the active deployment of state-owned corporations in the global East amid the region&#8217;s pursuit of condensed and developmental urbanization and industrialization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Hyun Bang Shin Source: Dialogues in Human Geography Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/20438206241289378\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/20438206241289378<\/a> Abstract While appreciating the novelty of conceptualizing urban state venturism, this commentary proposes that the state&#8217;s role as capital can be clearly evidenced by the urbanization of state capital, which involves the active deployment of state-owned corporations in the global East amid the region&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145170531,"featured_media":6534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[776957933],"tags":[776958395,776958076,776958398],"class_list":["post-8471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category--en","tag-global-east","tag-newsroom","tag-urbanisation"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pai6UY-2cD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7494,"url":"https:\/\/typesetter.hk\/en\/2025\/12\/30\/article-culture-goes-east-mapping-the-shifting-geographies-of-urban-cultural-capital-through-major-cultural-buildings\/","url_meta":{"origin":8471,"position":0},"title":"[Article] Culture goes East: Mapping the Shifting Geographies of Urban Cultural Capital through Major Cultural Buildings","author":"\u624b\u6c11\u51fa\u7248\u793e","date":"30\/12\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Author: David Gogishvili and Martin M\u00fcller Source: Urban Studies Link: https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/00420980241289846 Abstract Culture has become a major component of policies to put cities on the global map. 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