How Shanghai’s Urban Heritage Conservation Plan Loses Effect? Paradoxical Governance Goals and Disparities in the Regeneration of Residential Historic Neighborhoods
| dc.contributor.author | Geng, Qianzheng | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wang, Ziming | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cui, Jiaying | |
| dc.contributor.author | Shen, Weizhen | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-11-28T08:32:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-11-28T08:32:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | en |
| dc.description | Game changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Shanghai is a pioneer for urban heritage conservation in China. However, a sharp turn has emerged since 2018, where existing regeneration pathways for historic residential neighbourhoods are replaced by governmental buyouts, total demolition, and exclusive luxury housing redevelopments, facilitated by conservation masterplan revisions achieved through invitational expert participation. This paper examines the multiple self-contradictory goals that the local government plans or claims to achieve behind this sharp redevelopmental turn, and argues that these paradoxical goals – together with widespread debates and contestations across various realms that transform into coalitions of distinct stances – have necessitated the creation of a complex governmentality mediated through mainstream narratives about urban renewal. As a case study, we mapped sweeping land buyout, urban fabric change, and conservation masterplan breaches/revisions in Shanghai’s Historic City Centre (Laochengxiang), and carried out discourse analysis based on text and video materials (n=393) to reveal dynamics of contestation, coalition formation, and governmentality production. While the Shanghai case echoes existing models such as state-initiated social engineering and state entrepreneurialism, emerging traits of “new municipalism” (manifested by self-mobilisation of non-government stakeholders) are also observed. With this perspective, we analysed risks and disparities in Shanghai’s urban renewal movement, and discussed ways forward focusing on community agency. Keywords: urban regeneration, historic district, contestation, governmentality, state entrepreneurialism, new municipalism | |
| dc.description.version | published version | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-94-64981-82-7 | en |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 2101-2127 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2242 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | CC-BY | en |
| dc.source | Game changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024 | en |
| dc.title | How Shanghai’s Urban Heritage Conservation Plan Loses Effect? Paradoxical Governance Goals and Disparities in the Regeneration of Residential Historic Neighborhoods | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en |