Transplanting cityscapes: the use of imagined globalization in housing commodification in Beijing
Wu, F. (2004) Transplanting cityscapes: the use of imagined globalization in housing commodification in Beijing. Area, 36, (3), 227-234.
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0004-0894 (print) |
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| Keywords: | beijing, housing development, global city, global imagination |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) D History General and Old World > DS Asia |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Geography > Economy, Culture, Space |
| Item ID: | 15533 |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Apr 2005 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 16:01 |
| Contributors: | Wu, F. (Author) |
| Date: | 2004 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/15533 |
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