Urban loopholes: creative alliances of spatial production in Shanghai’s city center /
Ying Zhou
- Basel: Birkhauser Verlag GmbH, 2017.
- 447 p.
Introduction -- The residential neighborhood -- The cultural street -- The midtown of China -- The new economies -- The Contemporary Art Ecologies-- Outlook -- Index of persons, institutions, and firms
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.