Urban Loopholes: Creative Alliances of Spatial Production in Shanghai’s City Center

Ying Zhou

Published by Birkhäuser 2017

Urban Loopholes

Creative Alliances of Spatial Production in Shanghai’s City Center

Ying Zhou

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035608908

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Learning from Shanghai

Urban reuse, creative production, consumerism, and heritage protection have formed an alliance for the transformation of inner-city districts of Shanghai.

This in-depth study, based on the author’s intimate familiarity of the local scene and supplemented by her critical outsider’s insights, describes the strategies, players, and processes of a uniquely Chinese model of urban transformation. Concepts like "Urban Loopholes", "Preservation via inhabitation", and "Gentrification with Chinese characteristics" characterize the specific mechanisms for urban development in Shanghai. Urban Loopholes invites the reader to rethink the necessity of urban resilience in the face of globalization’s impact for change.

Examination of the rapid urban transformation in the largest city in China
Detailed case studies in selected neighborhoods of Shanghai
An unparalleled combination of urbanistic, architectural, and sociological issues

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Ying Zhou, born in Shanghai, education at Harvard, Princeton und ETH Zurich, Professor at the University of Hong Kong

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Urban Transformation in Diverse Inner-city Neighborhoods in Shanghai Kees Christiaanse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
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Chapter 2: The Residential Neighborhood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
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Chapter 4: The Midtown of China Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
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Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Pages
- Main content: 448
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 300

eBook

Published: June 26, 2017
ISBN: 9783035608908

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Published: June 26, 2017
ISBN: 9783035611045