Open AccessThe Art of Re-Industrialisation in Shanghai
Author(s) -
Xin Gu
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
culture unbound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.256
H-Index - 7
ISSN - 2000-1525
DOI - 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.124193
Subject(s) - relocation , restructuring , industrialisation , economic geography , estate , scale (ratio) , the arts , business , residence , real estate , economy , regional science , geography , political science , finance , sociology , economics , market economy , cartography , demography , computer science , law , programming language
This paper deals with the development of ‘art clusters’ and their relocation in the city of Shanghai. It first looks at the revival of the city’s old inner city industrial area (along banks of Suzhou River) through ‘organic’ or ‘alternative’ artist-led cultural production; second, it describes the impact on these activities of the industrial restructuring of the wider city, reliant on large-scale real estate development, business services and global finance; and finally, outlines the relocation of these arts (and related) cultural industries to dispersed CBD locations as a result of those spatial, industrial and policy changes