The Political Economy of Urban Ruins: Redeveloping Shanghai

作者: Xuefei Ren

DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12119

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摘要: This essay analyzes the political economy of urban ruins captured in Greg Girard's photo album Phantom Shanghai. Rather than being marginal, irrelevant or merely objects for nostalgia, buildings produced by real estate speculation offer crucial insights into workings and reflect wider trends governance. Examining how building come about first place they are represented visual media can help us better understand processes urbanization making, central role destruction contemporary Chinese urbanism. illustrates this point analyzing economic function, legitimation cultural significance demolitions China.