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 the natural and conventional schools of property rights. In
examining these issues this book develops a theoretical framework
starting with a critique of the socio-spatial debate between two
influential bodies of work represented by the work of Henri
Lefebvre and David Harvey. Drawing on the framework, the book
examines why pseudo-public spaces have been growing so rapidly in
China since the 1980s; assesses to what degree pseudo-public spaces
are public, and how they affect the publicness of Chinese cities;
and explores the consequences of their rise. Findings of this book
provide insights that can help to better understand Chinese
urbanism and also have the potential to inform urban policy in
China. This book will be of interest to academics and researchers
in both Chinese studies and urban studies.
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