Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/53991
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2010/39
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Shanghai
intraurban borderland
urban restructuring
rural-to-urban migration
coexistence
multiple identity
spatial identity
JEL: 
R26
R23
Z19
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-276-4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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