Gentrification and Shanghai’s new middle-class: Another reflection on the cultural consumption thesis

Wang, June; Lau, Ssy

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2009.01.004

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“…Here, two decades of sustained economic growth has fuelled the growth of a moneyed middle class aspiring towards elite lifestyles (Wang & Lau, 2009). Meanwhile, the state has played an indispensable role in initiating and facilitating gentrification.…”

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Commercial Gentrification and Entrepreneurial Governance in Shanghai: A Case Study of Taikang Road Creative Cluster

Wang

2011

Urban Policy and Research

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Commercial gentrification-based on the adaptive reuse of historic dwellings for upscale shopping, dining and culture-is emerging as a new model of neighbourhood regeneration in China. Through an analysis of Shanghai's urban restructuring and a case study of Taikang Road Creative Cluster, this article demonstrates that entrepreneurial local government is a key facilitator. Conscious of the synergistic value of restored urban heritage with conspicuous consumption, tourism and even the creative industries, local officials have utilised their urban planning authority to open up urban heritage to a host of gentrifiers including businesses, artists and creative firms. In terms of social outcomes, some local residents have capitalised on inflated property values and gained the opportunity to move out of poverty. Nevertheless, socially exclusive outcomes have also been evident, as commercialisation eroded the living environment of rural migrants and other poor residents.

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Commercial Gentrification and Entrepreneurial Governance in Shanghai: A Case Study of Taikang Road Creative Cluster

Wang

2011

Urban Policy and Research

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“…It excludes the needs of the local population and caters only to those of visitors and new residents. This speculative real estate process (Rossiter, 2006) has an impact on the physical and typological realms, and in an updated version of Zukin's "Artistic Mode of Production" (Zukin, 1982), employs neo-bohemian aesthetics (Ley, 2003;Wang, Lau, 2009;Lawton et al, 2013) as a filter to determine the authenticity of the urban heritage against established heritage criteria. The aesthetics and atmosphere of new shops and businesses reinforces the sense of the neighborhood's creative cultural distinction (Zukin, 1982, Zukin et al, 2009), adding to the potential revenue that both private and public stakeholders expect from heritage commodification.…”

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Authenticity as a challenge in the transformation of Beijing's urban heritage: The commercial gentrification of the Guozijian historic area

Martínez

2016

Cities

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The transformation of Beijing's historic center is in need of an evaluation from the standpoint of authenticity, a concept increasingly used and constantly redefined. Beginning with a heritage-based definition of authenticity, this article will present a review of the urban intervention policies that have been implemented in Beijing's inner city hutongs since the Revolution in 1949, evaluating their effect on the capital's preservation. Then, the paper will continue describing how current urban redevelopment is assuming contemporary definitions of urban authenticity emanating from the creative city paradigm and the tourism industry, leaving a lasting effect on its vernacular heritage. Taking the historical area of Guozijian as a case study, this article will evaluate the integration of contemporary commercial architecture into this historic setting. This evaluation will highlight how flawed conceptions of authenticity have brought about an ongoing gentrification process that is displacing a large share of the population, a fundamental component of urban heritage authenticity.

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“…Creative industries comprise 13 activity areas that are based on individual creativity, skill, and talent (DCMS 2001). In various ways, the model of urban regeneration linked to creative industries has positioned local government in the leading role of the process (Bagwell 2008;Markwick 2018;Wang and Lau 2009;Zukin 2009). The increasing importance of creative industries as a new source of local economic growth was taken up by many Asian cities, in particular in China.…”

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From clothing to culinary industries: creativity in the making of place

Hanan

Hemanto²

2019

Creative Industries Journal

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Creative clusters in many Western and Asian cities are predominantly established through policy-making and the involvement of government and private institutions. This paper investigates another way creative industries emerge, whereby individual initiatives of creative young people transform a colonial residential quarter into creative clusters. The creativity of young people has brought life and diversity to a mono-functional urban area by seizing new opportunities for small-scale business practices. The paper is based on a field survey and mapping of 80 clothing and culinary industries at Trunojoyo quarter in Bandung, Indonesia, that contributed to the nomination of Bandung as UNESCO City of Design in 2015. The young people of Bandung exhibit tactical strategies in the emergence of creative clusters and exercise informal processes and social networks as catalysts for growing creative industries. They reveal how youthful energy and creativity within everyday life brings about something that is rational and practical in creating an experiential place and making an historical quarter into a place of high economic performance.

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Gentrification and Shanghai’s new middle-class: Another reflection on the cultural consumption thesis

Cited by 65 publications

References 21 publications

Commercial Gentrification and Entrepreneurial Governance in Shanghai: A Case Study of Taikang Road Creative Cluster

Commercial Gentrification and Entrepreneurial Governance in Shanghai: A Case Study of Taikang Road Creative Cluster

Authenticity as a challenge in the transformation of Beijing's urban heritage: The commercial gentrification of the Guozijian historic area

From clothing to culinary industries: creativity in the making of place

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