The City's New “Trinity” in Contemporary Shanghai: A Case Study of the Residential Housing Market^*

Bridge, Gary (editor) / Watson, Sophie (editor) / Xiaoming, Wang (author) / Rooker, Tyler (author)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 134-141

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

2011-02-25

8 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch12

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

Shanghai's public political space, shrinking ‐ a “government affairs space” , space repartition, change of lifestyle ‐ for entire city , city in China, end of 1980s ‐ restructured, visual cultures of urban, new spaces and new structure of urban power , speed of differentiation ‐ between different income levels (jieceng) , changes, in urban space of Shanghai ‐ “represented” through method of imaging , Shanghai residential housing market ‐ expansion of residential real‐estate market, top to bottom rapid , city's new “trinity” in contemporary Shanghai ‐ and residential housing market , land, Chinese characteristics ‐ of Shanghai residential real‐estate market , Shanghai, form of “residential/consumer” city ‐ consumer logic , formation and strengthening of pessimistic perspectives of residents in post‐1990s Shanghai