Pseudo-Public Spaces in Chinese Shopping Malls: Rise, Publicness and Consequences

ISBN-13: 9781032177991 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 260 str.

Yiming Wang

Opis

This book develops a theoretical framework building on the work of Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey to provide insights that enrich theoretical and empirical debates and have the potential to inform urban policy in China.

Recenzje

"Yiming Wang undertakes the first systematic study on the rise of shopping malls in China to offer a sustained critical analysis on the emergence of such pseudo-public spaces. This book provides a complex picture of emerging pseudo-public spaces with ‘Chinese characteristics’ – one that is underscored by ambiguous property rights within a hybrid and variegated Chinese system that combines (seemingly) neoliberal elements with strong state intervention. Wang’s book is a welcome addition to the scholarship on Chinese urbanism and brings long-overdue attention to the rise of such new consumption spaces in contemporary urban China. Empirically rich and theoretically grounded, this book deserves a wide audience." - Pow C. P., National University of Singapore

Spis treści

Contents

　

List of Figures

List of Tables

Series Editor Foreword

Preface

Abbreviations

　

1 Introduction

2 Understanding Spatial Transformation

3 The Rise of Pseudo-Public Spaces

4 The Publicness of Pseudo-Public Spaces

5 Consequences of Pseudo-Public Spaces

6 Conclusion

　

Bibliography

Appendices

Index

O autorze

Yiming Wang is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) in Tongji University, China. He completed his PhD at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His research is centred on Chinese urbanism, spatial political economy and the publicness of space.