The Remaking of Shanghai Local Spaces

Lu, Pan. (2008) The Remaking of Shanghai Local Spaces, http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/soi/article/view/17740/16530
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2. Masculine aspirations overlooked variety of local spaces of Shabghai urbanity in ways that have raised the power of global capital to the status of becoming the exclusive tool for understanding the foundation of both local & global imaginaries

. some local spaces trivial in math of globalisation, some deeply embedded in local soil, some traverse global & local awareness

. Shanghai is as divided and multilayered, Imaginary layers of shapes that overlap and intermingle in the form of a palimpsest that blurs the indentities of space in spaces of identity

.local > global systems, the micro affecting the global

.Duolun Road, accommodated some of the best known masters of Chinese modern lit., entrepeneurs & politicians
30s & 30s golden time, pedestrian access

3. Duolun Rd Cultural Celebrities St, architectural variety, charm lost

Shaoxing Rd, significant cultural landmark, tranquil, nostalgia

5. localness defined and redefined outside global aspiration

. cultural spaces have been reborn not only in the sense that the formation of local objects - old traditions return, hybridism emerges

6. DDM warehouse, 98 Taiwanese Deng Kunyan

7. Shanghai Sculpture Space, Shanghai Diao Su Zhong Xin, Tian Zi Fang (Shanghai Soho)

.Modern capitalism and modernism once synchronised with the world, came to a halt for nearly 30 years

8. Collin Rowe, 'Collage City'

10. 30s, 50 yrs of de-urbanisation, caused discontent & conflict between urban form and function

11. While the desire of consumption can be projected onto the temporal effect of refurbished urban spaces, time past is not necessarily the only magical spell underpining the charisma of old architecture for locals

12. Shanghai is Hype. We talk about it without seeing the multifaceted reality of this city

. fragmentation

13. Shanghai- decentralising itself in both temporal and spatial terms