Heritage, values and gentrification
The redevelopment of historic areas in China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5700537 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yujie Zhu (0000-0002-7424-1697, Australian National University, College Arts & Social Sciences, Acton, Australia), Plácido González Martínez (0000-0003-1109-6602, Tongji University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 476-494 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13527258.2021.2010791 |
| OpenAlex | W4200050520 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
| References cited | 64 |
This paper explores the impacts of heritage-led urban redevelopment on local communities and the associated consequences of gentrification. The instrumental role of cultural heritage in urban governance presents an underdeveloped research field on gentrification. Especially in fast-developing countries like China, redevelopment is often associated with urban beautification that favours the interests of the affluent middle classes while disregarding the needs of the urban poor and migrants. This paper uses Qujiang New District in Xi’an and Taipingqiao in Shanghai as cases for examining the impacts of heritage-led redevelopment on the urban landscape and social fabric of Chinese cities. Following a qualitative approach based on built environment analysis and observation, together with in-depth, semi-structured interviews, this study shows how cultural heritage becomes an effective tool for governance in the context of urban redevelopment. The values generated by cultural heritage and its associated ideas, including urban beautification, high culture and economic benefits, legitimise state-dominated spatial reconstruction and the resulting gentrification and social fragmentation. Heritage-led urban redevelopment in China produces new spaces for social interaction, where the state’s control over its citizens is reinforced. These spaces support investor and upper-high class interests of capital accumulation and leave limited room for the development of alternatives
Archaeology · China · Civil engineering · Cultural heritage · Cultural heritage management · Economic geography · Environmental planning · Gentrification · Geography · Industrial heritage · Political science · Redevelopment · Urban regeneration · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Engineering · History · Law · Urban Planning and Governance
From perceived value to practice
Fragilities of Historical Settlements Targeted by Heritage Tourism
In the Name of Conservation
Negotiating temporalities
Cosmological Markings and Erasures
Tracing change in the public perception of plants
Assessing the paradox between development and preservation
Reappropriating the communal past
An Analysis of Framing Strategies for Redevelopment in Historic Cities
Curating culture
Tourism-led adaptive reuse of the built vernacular heritage
Sustaining Vernacular Heritage
Holistic–Relational Approach to the Analysis, Evaluation, and Protection Strategies of Historic Urban Eight Views
Reconfiguring colonial legacies
Research on the governance practice of heritage area in China and Italy
Towards State Entrepreneurialism? Exploring Heritage-Led Governance and Urban (Re)development Practices in Xi’an, China
Hidden conflicts? Revealing power mechanisms in collaborative governance for redeveloping heritage districts
Micro-regeneration”
Governance shifts in the contested regeneration of Beijing’s historical neighborhoods
Heritagizing the Other
Heritagization as an Authoritarian Urban Practice in China
Behind the Faces of Aestheticized Urbanism in Tunxi, China
Art district without artists”
Reinterpreting colonial heritage in urban spaces
Seeking the past through eyes of others
Exploring the role of government-driven culture-led micro-regeneration in shaping the sense of place within urban historic districts in China
Does the preservation policy of historical and cultural heritage promote economic growth? Evidence from China
Distinguishing the ‘A’ in authorised heritage discourse
From the few to the many
China's heritage governance blueprint
Integrating heritage assets in large commercial complexes
Gentrification without displacement? A case study of heritage-led development in post-socialist China
Invisible displacement of residents
An analysis of diverse gentrification processes and their relationship to historic preservation activity in Chicago
A historic neighborhood reshaped by linguistic landscape and gentrification
Alternative gentrification
Heritage as city vision leverage
Uptown on the upslope? Heritage and gentrification in Chicago's Sheridan Park
Commodification in Disguise
The Role of Local Cultural Heritage in Community Empowerment
Heritage Politics in China
Democracy and Decentralisation in South Asia and West Africa
Rule By Aesthetics
Uses of Heritage
Space and the State
Commercial Gentrification and Entrepreneurial Governance in Shanghai
Heritage, gentrification, participation
Heritage, gentrification, participation
Heritage and the Right to the City
From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism
Reflections on Architectural Heritage Conservation in Shanghai
PAX—Patios de la Axerquía Urban Regeneration and Social Innovation in a Heritage Context
Morality as Legitimacy under Xi Jinping
Urban heritage, gentrification, and tourism in Riverwest and El Abasto
Pudong is not my Shanghai”
Forward to the Past
New Retail Capital and Neighborhood Change
Why gentrification theory fails in ‘much of the world’
Property-Led Redevelopment in Post-Reform China
Police, politics, and the right to the city
Artists and Shanghai's culture-led urban regeneration
Gentrification and Shanghai’s new middle-class
Urban conservation and revalorisation of dilapidated historic quarters
Tourism-driven urbanization in China’s small town development
Place promotion and iconography in Shanghai's Xintiandi
Dissonant heritage
Gentrification and its contentment
Gentrification and revanchist urbanism in Taipei
Three Waves of State‐led Gentrification in China
Dancing with the Devil? Gentrification and Urban Struggles in, through and against the State in Nanjing, China
State Dominance in Urban Redevelopment
The right to the city
Heritage as Improvement
New Globalism, New Urbanism
Curating the selective memory of gentrification
Uses of the past
Conservation values, the authorised heritage discourse and the conservation-planning assemblage
From verifiable authenticity to verisimilar interventions
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Gentrification
Family or Money? The False Dilemma in Property Dispossession in Shanghai
Gentrification in Spain and Latin America - a Critical Dialogue
Making cultural cities in China
Gentrifier? Who, Me? Interrogating the Gentrifier in the Mirror
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Is Comparative Gentrification Possible? Sceptical Voices from Hong Kong
Gentrifying China's Urbanization? Why Culture and Capital Aren't Enough
Gentrification inHongKong? Epistemology vs. Ontology
The Political Economy of Urban Ruins
Neoliberalism, Authoritarian Politics and Social Policy in China
Spatial Cleansing
Creative Heritage
Beauty as control in the new Saigon
| Unique citing works | 40 |
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| Citations per year | 10 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |