• Media type: E-Book; Report
  • Title: Identity and space on the borderland between old and new in Shanghai: A case study
  • Contributor: Iossifova, Deljana [Author]
  • imprint: Helsinki: The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), 2010
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 978-92-9230-276-4
  • Keywords: R23 ; coexistence ; spatial identity ; Shanghai ; multiple identity ; Z19 ; urban restructuring ; intraurban borderland ; R26 ; rural-to-urban migration
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  • Description: China's urban geography has been dramatically altered over the past three decades. The co-presence of splinters in urban fabric - contrasting and continuously changing in terms of condition, use, and socio-cultural consistency - is symptomatic for the country's contemporary transition, suspending existing spatial and temporal disconnections particularly on the borderland in-between old and new, poor and rich, traditional and modern. Focusing on three urban groups (long-term urban residents, rural newcomers, and urban newcomers) in a district of sociospatial diversity in Shanghai, this paper examines trajectories of urban restructuring, aspects of sociospatial identification, and elements of the person-environment-relationship.
  • Access State: Open Access