Pseudo-Public Spaces in Chinese Shopping Malls

Rise, Publicness and Consequences
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-17799-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 401 g

Reihe: Routledge Complex Real Property Rights Series

Shopping malls in China create a new pseudo-public urban space which is under the control of private or quasi-public power structure. As they are open for public use, mediated by the co-mingling of private property rights and public meanings of urban space, the rise, publicness and consequences of the boom in the construction of shopping malls raises major questions in spatial political economy and magnifies existing theoretical debates between the natural and conventional schools of property rights.

In examining these issues this book develops a theoretical framework starting with a critique of the socio-spatial debate between two influential bodies of work represented by the work of Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey. Drawing on the framework, the book examines why pseudo-public spaces have been growing so rapidly in China since the 1980s; assesses to what degree pseudo-public spaces are public, and how they affect the publicness of Chinese cities; and explores the consequences of their rise.

Findings of this book provide insights that can help to better understand Chinese urbanism and also have the potential to inform urban policy in China. This book will be of interest to academics and researchers in both Chinese studies and urban studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wang, Yiming

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Öffentliche Gebäude, Gewerbliche Bauten
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Baukonstruktion, Baufachmaterialien
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.