["International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView. ", "\nAbstract\nThis article examines commodity‐resettlement mixed communities (CRMCs) as a by‐product of land‐centred, property‐led urbanization. Within the repertoire of land‐centred urbanization, we show how the introduction of price‐capped land auctions, coupled with competitive resettlement provision, has subtly reconfigured speculative urban (re)development, transferring the responsibility for resettlement from the local state to developers, thereby generating scattered resettlement patterns. Consequently, CRMCs emerge as rural–urban interstices where resettled households are embedded in—and subordinated to—an urbanized governance regime. Previously cohesive and resilient rural communities are thereby fragmented into interstitial formations. Against this backdrop, we turn to the repertoire of post‐resettlement urbanism, examining how the state deploys multiscalar governance strategies to stabilize post‐resettlement life. At the urban scale, the local state articulates resettled villagers’ citizenship via infrastructure provision; at the neighbourhood scale, it establishes residential committees to orchestrate community‐building initiatives. Confronted with the most intractable challenge—the socio‐spatial tensions between resettled villagers and middle‐class homeowners—the local state facilitates tacit agreement on spatial segregation within CRMCs, thereby preserving both collectivist and middle‐class residential patterns. This study foregrounds the dominance of the state in urban governance, while illuminating the imperative to re‐embed itself within the social fabric of post‐resettlement urbanism.\n"]