TY - GEN AU - Zhou, Ying TI - Urban loopholes: creative alliances of spatial production in Shanghai’s city center SN - 9783035611045 U1 - 711.4 PY - 2017/// CY - Basel PB - Birkhauser Verlag GmbH KW - AR N1 - Introduction -- The residential neighborhood -- The cultural street -- The midtown of China -- The new economies -- The Contemporary Art Ecologies-- Outlook -- Index of persons, institutions, and firms N2 - Urban reuse, creative production, consumerism, and heritage protection have formed an alliance for the transformation of inner-city districts of Shanghai. This in-depth study, based on the author?s intimate familiarity of the local scene and supplemented by her critical outsider?s insights, describes the strategies, players, and processes of a uniquely Chinese model of urban transformation. Concepts like "Urban Loopholes", "Preservation via inhabitation", and "Gentrification with Chinese characteristics" characterize the specific mechanisms for urban development in Shanghai ER -