1st Edition
Pseudo-Public Spaces in Chinese Shopping Malls Rise, Publicness and Consequences
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
Biography
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.
"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
