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Pseudo-Public Spaces in Chinese Shopping Malls

Rise, Publicness and Consequences

Yiming Wang author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:11th Jun '19

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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.

"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

ISBN: 9780367197209

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

240 pages