Pow Choon-Piew is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore.
Moving beyond conventional accounts of gated communities and housing segregation, this book interrogates the moral politics of urban place-making in China’s commodity housing enclaves. Drawing on fieldwork and survey conducted in Shanghai, Pow critically demonstrates how gated communities are bound up in the cultural reproduction of middle-class landscape that is entrenched in the politics of the good life – defined in terms of a highly segregated landscape secured and maintained through the territorialisation of privilege, lifestyle and private property.
The study challenges the concept of gated communities as simply ‘spatial containers’ of social classes and argues that Shanghai’s gated enclaves may be more fruitfully analyzed as critical sites of and for the production and consumption of an exclusive lifestyle where nascent middle-class sensibilities and identities are being (re)presented, cultivated and lived. In the final analysis, the book addresses an overarching normative concern by examining how social-spatial differentiation and exclusion in Shanghai’s gated communities potentially disrupt, challenge and unsettle the modern ideals of urban life. By adopting a geographical moral perspective, this book illuminates the moral complexities and ambiguities of place-making in Shanghai’s increasingly polarized urban landscape.
As the first book length academic study on gated communities in China, this book will appeal broadly to those with interests in Urban studies and urban social development in China.
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Maintaining order and civility: purified spaces and the paradox of gated living
评分Maintaining order and civility: purified spaces and the paradox of gated living
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评分七五之後新疆不少城市的住宅區趨嚮封閉,錶現就是各種高牆門禁林立,有軍警背景的更是24小時大門緊閉隻留一個眼鏡盒大小的縫隙用於門衛窺探外界,這種內捲導緻的感受與在大街上能隨意見到巡街持槍軍人是一緻的——你說是更安全還是更不安全瞭呢?
评分七五之後新疆不少城市的住宅區趨嚮封閉,錶現就是各種高牆門禁林立,有軍警背景的更是24小時大門緊閉隻留一個眼鏡盒大小的縫隙用於門衛窺探外界,這種內捲導緻的感受與在大街上能隨意見到巡街持槍軍人是一緻的——你說是更安全還是更不安全瞭呢?
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