During the Mao era, China's museums served an explicit and uniform propaganda function,
underlining official Party history, eulogizing revolutionary heroes, and contributing to nation …

The regeneration of old residential areas in China is facing a complex trap involving all
kinds of stakeholders. On the one hand, ambiguous property rights, huge infrastructure …

From the years 2004 to 2008, Beijing and Shanghai witnessed the construction of an
extraordinary number of new buildings, many of which were designed by architectural firms …

This article takes as its starting point the observation that food, meals and gastronomy are
frequently used in the branding of places. The knowledge of how and why this takes place …

Gentrification has now unfolded at a planetary scale and has broken down the center-
periphery structuring of urban and rural areas. In the context of new-type urbanization and …

Pedestrianisation, the conversion of a vehicular street for pedestrian use, is increasingly
being proposed worldwide as a sustainable measure by hegemonic powers …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to offer a framework for the analysis and evaluation of
city brands equity that is firmly anchored to the interdisciplinary characteristics of the city …

This article examines the role of historical preservation in the spatial restructuring of
postindustrial cities through a detailed case study of Xintiandi, a preservation–based …

An extensive body of literature documents large-scale property-led redevelopment in the
world and in China. However, in recent years China has seen the policy shift toward small …

Over the last two decades, China has experienced urban redevelopment at an
unprecedented scale and speed. The state-sponsored property-led redevelopment pattern …