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AbstractDrawing on Manuel Castells's and other scholars' views, their research achievements provide a perspective that globalization can be understood as a process with various 'flows' and leads to a modification of certain factors of urban development. Meanwhile, it also has been considered as a process with seldom or no governmental intervention. However, authority can currently play a crucial role in such process under a certain circumstances, especially in the megacities of developing countries. This paper, taking Guangzhou as a case study, will begin with a review of its recent urban development history, especially focusing on the policy reformation in various spheres (e.g. fiscal system, taxation system and urban land use system). Then, a series of crucial government reformations, which are considered as milestones, will be marked and further anatomized. By different research methods, direct or indirect influences and chain reactions from innovation results to urban forms and urban spaces and the results will be highlighted. These specialties of urban development will be further compared and linked with current globalization process. It is proved that a dominant government‐oriented development model can equally benefit a city's globalization process. It also reveals how indeed a serious of local administrative behaviours contribute to its connection with globalization. Furthermore, it is concluded that the track of globalization could be different from the very beginning.

AbstractA new policy approach that seeks to formalize street vendors by immobilizing them in designated places has been taken as an alternative to exclusion in Guangzhou, China. This article develops an analytical framework for understanding this spatial formalization by drawing upon Foucault's concept of governmentality. Formalization can be understood as a form of spatial governmentality that seeks to guide the behaviour of informal economic individuals towards officially desired norms by creating bounded spaces. While the formalization programme reflects a moral form of political rationality that directs modern governments towards principles of social justice, it is fundamentally founded on a dispositional spatial rationality that imagines the dependence of social control on the ordering of space. However, this spatial rationality entails a tension between the goal of formalization and its practical effects, resulting in a failure to respect vital attributes of street vending and vendors' counter‐responses to it. The article concludes by questioning the government's formalization approach, given its ignorance of the reality of informality, and opens up the question of what might be good formalization.