Pseudo-Public Spaces in Chinese Shopping Malls: Rise, Publicness and Consequences

by Yiming Wang

Shopping malls in China create a new pseudo-public urban space which is under the control of private or quasi-public power structure. As they are open for public use, mediated by the co-mingling of private property rights and public meanings of urban space, the rise, publicness and consequences of the boom in the construction of shopping malls raises major questions in spatial political economy and magnifies existing theoretical debates between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367197200
• ISBN13: 9780367197209
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.7" x 9.4"