Transplanting cityscapes: the use of imagined globalization in housing commodification in Beijing
Transplanting cityscapes: the use of imagined globalization in housing commodification in Beijing
How does globalization unfold in the process of urban development? Rather than examine the impact of globalization on the city as if the former were independent of and superimposed on the latter, this paper aims to address how globalization can be imagined, pursued and exploited in the process of local growth. Through examining the emergence of Western architectural motifs in a late socialist capital, Beijing, it is shown that transplanting cityscapes is a conscious action by developers to exploit globalization and thereby overcome the constraints of local markets. By associating themselves with globalization, the development elite hope to sell the vision of the good life in the era of globalization.
beijing, housing development, global city, global imagination
227-234
Wu, F.
8e851da7-93c0-4ba2-a5ae-8a4cf0779895
2004
Wu, F.
8e851da7-93c0-4ba2-a5ae-8a4cf0779895
Wu, F.
(2004)
Transplanting cityscapes: the use of imagined globalization in housing commodification in Beijing.
Area, 36 (3), .
Abstract
How does globalization unfold in the process of urban development? Rather than examine the impact of globalization on the city as if the former were independent of and superimposed on the latter, this paper aims to address how globalization can be imagined, pursued and exploited in the process of local growth. Through examining the emergence of Western architectural motifs in a late socialist capital, Beijing, it is shown that transplanting cityscapes is a conscious action by developers to exploit globalization and thereby overcome the constraints of local markets. By associating themselves with globalization, the development elite hope to sell the vision of the good life in the era of globalization.
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Published date: 2004
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beijing, housing development, global city, global imagination
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Local EPrints ID: 15533
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/15533
ISSN: 0004-0894
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