IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/urbstu/v52y2015i15p2906-2921.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Politics and the social in world-class cities: Building a Shanghai model

Author

Listed:
  • Tony Roshan Samara

Abstract

The 2010 World Expo in Shanghai provided a unique opportunity to examine emerging visions of utopian urbanism in the Global South, and the contradictions contained within them. The theme of the event was ‘Better City, Better Life’, and in its own promotional literature the Shanghai World Expo Coordinating Committee stressed the importance of sustainable, harmonious cities. The Expo was seen by many proponents as a way to educate the public about the opportunities and challenges cities face, and to identify and demonstrate solutions that harnessed the dynamism of urban space. At the same time, the Expo was itself a massive undertaking of urban redevelopment that dramatically reshaped parts of the downtown landscape and beyond. The aim of this article is to examine the vision of the World Expo that its proponents put forth, and to explore both inherent and extrinsic tensions between this vision and the trajectory of urban development.

Suggested Citation

  • Tony Roshan Samara, 2015. "Politics and the social in world-class cities: Building a Shanghai model," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 52(15), pages 2906-2921, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:52:y:2015:i:15:p:2906-2921
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098015582308
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0042098015582308
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/0042098015582308?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Rob Vanwynsberghe & Björn Surborg & Elvin Wyly, 2013. "When the Games Come to Town: Neoliberalism, Mega-Events and Social Inclusion in the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 37(6), pages 2074-2093, November.
    2. Hyun Shin, 2012. "Unequal cities of spectacle and mega-events in China," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(6), pages 728-744.
    3. Jennifer Day & Robert Cervero, 2010. "Effects of Residential Relocation on Household and Commuting Expenditures in Shanghai, China," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 34(4), pages 762-788, December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Sharon Barnhardt & Erica Field & Rohini Pande, 2017. "Moving to Opportunity or Isolation? Network Effects of a Randomized Housing Lottery in Urban India," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 9(1), pages 1-32, January.
    2. Ruhet Genç & Eda Aylin Genç, 2017. "Promotion of Social Inclusion through New Steps in Tourism," Acta Universitatis Danubius. OEconomica, Danubius University of Galati, issue 13(3), pages 194-201, JUNE.
    3. Huei-Fu Lu, 2021. "Hallmark Sporting Events as a Vehicle for Promoting the Sustainable Development of Regional Tourism: Strategic Perspectives from Stakeholders," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(6), pages 1-15, March.
    4. John Lauermann, 2016. "Temporary projects, durable outcomes: Urban development through failed Olympic bids?," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 53(9), pages 1885-1901, July.
    5. Valenzuela-Levi, Nicolás, 2021. "The rich and mobility: A new look into the impacts of income inequality on household transport expenditures," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 100(C), pages 161-171.
    6. Kong, Dongmin & Shi, Zheng & Xiong, Mengxu, 2024. "Currency overvaluation and export product quality: Evidence from China," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 93(C).
    7. Tianren Yang, 2020. "Understanding commuting patterns and changes: Counterfactual analysis in a planning support framework," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 47(8), pages 1440-1455, October.
    8. Dong Lin & Andrew Allan & Jianqiang Cui, 2016. "Exploring Differences in Commuting Behaviour among Various Income Groups during Polycentric Urban Development in China: New Evidence and Its Implications," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 8(11), pages 1-17, November.
    9. Xue, Fei & Yao, Enjian, 2022. "Impact analysis of residential relocation on ownership, usage, and carbon-dioxide emissions of private cars," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 252(C).
    10. Alison L. Bain & Julie A. Podmore, 2022. "THE SCALAR ARRHYTHMIA OF LGBTQ2S SOCIAL INCLUSION POLICIES: An Analysis of the Peripheral Municipalities of a ‘Progressive’ City‐region," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 46(5), pages 784-806, September.
    11. Picarelli, Nathalie, 2019. "There Is No Free House," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 111(C), pages 35-52.
    12. Klinger, Thomas, 2017. "Moving from monomodality to multimodality? Changes in mode choice of new residents," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 221-237.
    13. Guan, Jinping & Xu, Chengzhong, 2018. "Are relocatees different from others? Relocatee’s travel mode choice and travel equity analysis in large-scale residential areas on the periphery of megacity Shanghai, China," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 111(C), pages 162-173.
    14. Li, Feng & Xiao, Jing Jian, 2020. "Losing the future: Household wealth from urban housing demolition and children's human capital in China," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 63(C).
    15. Ryanne Flock, 2024. "Creating the spectacular city in everyday life: A governance analysis of urban public space in China," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 61(6), pages 1094-1110, May.
    16. Juliet Carpenter, 2022. "Picture This: Exploring Photovoice as a Method to Understand Lived Experiences in Marginal Neighbourhoods," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 7(3), pages 351-362.
    17. Hyun Bang Shin, 2014. "Urban spatial restructuring, event-led development and scalar politics," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 51(14), pages 2961-2978, November.
    18. Zhichang Cai & ChengHe Guan & An Trinh & Bo Zhang & Zhibin Chen & Sumeeta Srinivasan & Chris Nielsen, 2022. "Satisfactions on Self-Perceived Health of Urban Residents in Chengdu, China: Gender, Age and the Built Environment," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(20), pages 1-17, October.
    19. Zhao, Pengjun & Zhang, Yixue, 2018. "Travel behaviour and life course: Examining changes in car use after residential relocation in Beijing," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 41-53.
    20. Christopher Gaffney, 2013. "Between Discourse and Reality: The Un-Sustainability of Mega-Event Planning," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 5(9), pages 1-15, September.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:52:y:2015:i:15:p:2906-2921. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/urbanstudiesjournal .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.