城际合作园区转型的制度空间重构机制——以锡沂高新区为例

立足制度空间视角，基于长三角城际合作园区发展总体规律，从微观实证深入，探讨其3次转型中制度重构与空间重构的互动关系，发现在产业转移、新城扩张与产业转型阶段，城际合作园区形成嵌入、扩张、重构3类典型制度空间模式，空间转型与制度空间重构处于相互影响、交织演进的动态过程；构建转型逻辑框架并指出，制度组织是主体网络的结构化再现，制度规则是其调控要素活动的手段，制度组织与制度规则共同作用推动空间重构；结果表明，“制度?空间”的交替演进、制度主体网络的周期波动、行动者策略选择的差异分层是园区转型发展的主线与基本规律。

Changing Mechanisms of Institutional Space for Restructuring Inter-city Cooperative Zones: A Case of the Wuxi-Xinyi (Xiyi) High Tech Zone

Since the beginning of the 21st century, inter-city cooperative zones have become an essential mode for China’s central and local governments to balance regional development and promote inter-city cooperation along with their pilot reforms and gradual spread, effectively improving the efficiency of regional allocation of resources. Inter-city cooperative zones combine the production organizing model of ‘Enclave Parks’ abroad and China’s institutional experiences in building ‘Special Economic Zones’ and present a new spatial production strategy of China’s Experimental Regionalism. The pilot construction and gradual spread of inter-city cooperative zones in most areas of China have resulted in the significant restructuring of regional urban networks and local urban spaces. Based on institutionalism in the evolution of urban spaces, this paper examines the institutional evolution for developing inter-city cooperative zones in the Yangtze River Delta. It conducts empirical studies on the case of the Wuxi-Xinyi (Xiyi) High Tech Zone to discuss the basic trajectory and changing institutional logic of the three transitions of inter-city cooperative zones. The paper has reached the following conclusions. 1) Firstly, 3 institutional space modes are manifested in the development of inter-city cooperative zones, namely, the embedded, expansive and reconstructive mode, which significantly influences the urban expansion and industrial restructuring of inter-city cooperative zones. In addition, the transitions of zones and the restructuring of institutional space are mutually influenced in the dynamic process of interleaving evolution. 2) Secondly, the new institutional organization in the inter-city cooperative zones depends on the authorities’cooperating network. In such a new institutional organization, core actors tend to perform formal institutional arrangements to pursue their best interests and promote local development; institutional rules are set up for participants to regulate different capital activities. Besides, local governments promote spatial restructuring by establishing institutional organizations and institutional rules through joint action. 3) Finally, after analyzing the restructuring process of the Xiyi Inter-city Cooperative Zone, this study summarizes the dynamic mechanism and law of the spatial evolution of intercity cooperation zones. We find that the alternating evolution of institutional space and economic space, the periodic fluctuation of the authorities’cooperating network, and the different stratification of space strategies are the fundamental laws to promote the transition and development of zones.