No.1262 Yan'an West Road and No.60 Panyu Road in Shanghai were previously part of Columbia Circle,which began construction in 1924,and the base of the Shanghai Institute of Biological Products(SIBP)from 1951 to 20...No.1262 Yan'an West Road and No.60 Panyu Road in Shanghai were previously part of Columbia Circle,which began construction in 1924,and the base of the Shanghai Institute of Biological Products(SIBP)from 1951 to 2014.They have now been transformed through urban renewal into one of Shanghai's famous instagrammable spots:Vanke Columbia Circle Park.In the survey of this completed site,we fnd that spatial traces of collective living in the form of danwei since the SIBP era are almost invisible in the cultural landscape of this urban renewal site.We use oral history interviews with the staf of SIBP,feld research and critical reading to argue that Vanke Columbia Circle Park provides a typical case to discuss the authenticity of narratives of‘architectural history'constructed through contemporary practices of urban heritage preservation and regeneration.This study seeks to reveal the memory of place in SIBP and to rethink the misuse or manipulation of‘real history'in urban heritage renewal in the context of individual micro-historical experiences.展开更多
While modernity is often treated as an abstract and overwhelming phenomenon,growing attention has been paid to the everyday as an approach to the modem in recent years.This article examines everyday modernity in conte...While modernity is often treated as an abstract and overwhelming phenomenon,growing attention has been paid to the everyday as an approach to the modem in recent years.This article examines everyday modernity in contemporary China through a comparative analysis of space and everyday life in the work unit{danyvei),a primary urban form during the socialist period,and the Foxconn factory,a representative example of China's"world factoryin the reform era.It shows change and continuity in everyday modernity at Chinese workplace in the context of the nation's economy shifting from one based on centrally planned heavy industry,with permanent employment and comprehensive social welfare for urban workers,to one that relies on export-oriented industries with the massive use of rural migrant workers.The study shows that both the work unit and the Foxconn factory complex feature the integral organization of workplace and crucial living facilities,but the driving forces behind this spatial arrangement and workers'everyday experience with the two types of workplace are quite different.展开更多
Against the backdrop of China's socio-economic transition, there is a growing imperative to examine neighborhood renovation initiatives in addressing the emerging needs of residents. Developing Granovetter's c...Against the backdrop of China's socio-economic transition, there is a growing imperative to examine neighborhood renovation initiatives in addressing the emerging needs of residents. Developing Granovetter's classic work on embeddedness, this paper proposes a conceptual framework of spatial embeddedness to understand changes in the physical space brought about by neighborhood renovation, in order to explore how it affects residents' satisfaction in a dynamic temporal and spatial process. It presents whether and why residents' real feelings produced from their interaction with neighborhood renovation are(un)different, and how their feelings are shaped based on six months of fieldwork in a danwei neighborhood in Xi'an, China. The paper conceptualizes the relationship between the neighborhood space and embeddedness by adopting spatial embeddedness to capture the interplay of temporal, spatial, and social factors in the process of danwei neighborhood renovation. This framework not only integrates multiple perspectives and scales, but also reflects different levels of residents' satisfaction, trying to establish a connection between the abstract space and the renovation space. It suggests that spatial embeddedness should be considered as a response to the negative social impacts resulting from changes in the physical space in neighborhood renovation.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52078339).
文摘No.1262 Yan'an West Road and No.60 Panyu Road in Shanghai were previously part of Columbia Circle,which began construction in 1924,and the base of the Shanghai Institute of Biological Products(SIBP)from 1951 to 2014.They have now been transformed through urban renewal into one of Shanghai's famous instagrammable spots:Vanke Columbia Circle Park.In the survey of this completed site,we fnd that spatial traces of collective living in the form of danwei since the SIBP era are almost invisible in the cultural landscape of this urban renewal site.We use oral history interviews with the staf of SIBP,feld research and critical reading to argue that Vanke Columbia Circle Park provides a typical case to discuss the authenticity of narratives of‘architectural history'constructed through contemporary practices of urban heritage preservation and regeneration.This study seeks to reveal the memory of place in SIBP and to rethink the misuse or manipulation of‘real history'in urban heritage renewal in the context of individual micro-historical experiences.
文摘While modernity is often treated as an abstract and overwhelming phenomenon,growing attention has been paid to the everyday as an approach to the modem in recent years.This article examines everyday modernity in contemporary China through a comparative analysis of space and everyday life in the work unit{danyvei),a primary urban form during the socialist period,and the Foxconn factory,a representative example of China's"world factoryin the reform era.It shows change and continuity in everyday modernity at Chinese workplace in the context of the nation's economy shifting from one based on centrally planned heavy industry,with permanent employment and comprehensive social welfare for urban workers,to one that relies on export-oriented industries with the massive use of rural migrant workers.The study shows that both the work unit and the Foxconn factory complex feature the integral organization of workplace and crucial living facilities,but the driving forces behind this spatial arrangement and workers'everyday experience with the two types of workplace are quite different.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 7227419742371238)。
文摘Against the backdrop of China's socio-economic transition, there is a growing imperative to examine neighborhood renovation initiatives in addressing the emerging needs of residents. Developing Granovetter's classic work on embeddedness, this paper proposes a conceptual framework of spatial embeddedness to understand changes in the physical space brought about by neighborhood renovation, in order to explore how it affects residents' satisfaction in a dynamic temporal and spatial process. It presents whether and why residents' real feelings produced from their interaction with neighborhood renovation are(un)different, and how their feelings are shaped based on six months of fieldwork in a danwei neighborhood in Xi'an, China. The paper conceptualizes the relationship between the neighborhood space and embeddedness by adopting spatial embeddedness to capture the interplay of temporal, spatial, and social factors in the process of danwei neighborhood renovation. This framework not only integrates multiple perspectives and scales, but also reflects different levels of residents' satisfaction, trying to establish a connection between the abstract space and the renovation space. It suggests that spatial embeddedness should be considered as a response to the negative social impacts resulting from changes in the physical space in neighborhood renovation.
