Urban loopholes

Urban Loopholes

Learning from Shanghai Urban adaptive reuse, creative production, consumerism, and heritage protection have formed alliances 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 uniquely Chinese models of urban transformation. Concepts like the “urban loophole,” “preservation via inhabitation,” and “gentrification with Chinese characteristics” localize the specific mechanisms for urban development in Shanghai in the larger body of theories of con­ temporary urban transformation. They offer frameworks for understanding the urban spatial productions of rapidly developing and transitioning political economies.

Urban Loopholes

Creative Alliances of Spatial Production in Shanghai’s City Center

Urban Loopholes invites the reader to rethink the necessity of urban resilience in the face of globalization’s impact for change.

Ying Zhou

“This book convincingly mediates the quintessence of the history of Chinese economic development in relation to urbanization.” Kees Christiaanse in his Foreword

Ying Zhou

ISBN 978-3-0356-1104-5

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