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Conference Paper: Shanghai’s professional middle class in the wave of gentrification: cause or effect?
Title | Shanghai’s professional middle class in the wave of gentrification: cause or effect? |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Public administration Municipal government |
Issue Date | 2009 |
Publisher | Pergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/cities |
Citation | The International Conference on "Globalization: Cultures, Institutions and Socioeconomics", Hong Kong, China, 12-13 December 2008. In Cities, 2009, v. 26 n. 2, p. 57-66 How to Cite? |
Abstract | The proliferation of the new middle-class and the ongoing gentrification of many Chinese cities calls for another reflection on causes of the latter. The paper presents an effort to unravel the middle-class in Chinese cities in order to probe the role of the professional middle-class in gentrification. Through a survey of randomly selected professional and managerial workers in the service industry, the paper argues that it is plausible to identify this fraction of the professional middle-class as one homogeneous social group who possess cultural competence to decode and appreciate an urbane lifestyle. Given the situation that residential redevelopment in a time of globalization has profoundly reshaped the social order of urban landscapes where gentrified neighborhoods assemble "established elite enclaves", members of the professional middle-class are attracted by the image of elite life and thus willing to pay for the symbolic value of those elite enclaves which they can afford. Approaching from the consumption side, the study reflects upon the role of the new middle-class in the process of gentrification in the Chinese urban context. |
Description | Session D2: Thinking Space, Linking Cities (individual papers) |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/64249 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 6.0 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.733 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Wang, J | en_HK |
dc.contributor.author | Lau, SY | en_HK |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-07-13T04:44:00Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2010-07-13T04:44:00Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citation | The International Conference on "Globalization: Cultures, Institutions and Socioeconomics", Hong Kong, China, 12-13 December 2008. In Cities, 2009, v. 26 n. 2, p. 57-66 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0264-2751 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/64249 | - |
dc.description | Session D2: Thinking Space, Linking Cities (individual papers) | en_HK |
dc.description.abstract | The proliferation of the new middle-class and the ongoing gentrification of many Chinese cities calls for another reflection on causes of the latter. The paper presents an effort to unravel the middle-class in Chinese cities in order to probe the role of the professional middle-class in gentrification. Through a survey of randomly selected professional and managerial workers in the service industry, the paper argues that it is plausible to identify this fraction of the professional middle-class as one homogeneous social group who possess cultural competence to decode and appreciate an urbane lifestyle. Given the situation that residential redevelopment in a time of globalization has profoundly reshaped the social order of urban landscapes where gentrified neighborhoods assemble "established elite enclaves", members of the professional middle-class are attracted by the image of elite life and thus willing to pay for the symbolic value of those elite enclaves which they can afford. Approaching from the consumption side, the study reflects upon the role of the new middle-class in the process of gentrification in the Chinese urban context. | - |
dc.language | eng | en_HK |
dc.publisher | Pergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/cities | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Cities | - |
dc.subject | Public administration | - |
dc.subject | Municipal government | - |
dc.title | Shanghai’s professional middle class in the wave of gentrification: cause or effect? | en_HK |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_HK |
dc.identifier.openurl | http://library.hku.hk:4550/resserv?sid=HKU:IR&issn=0264-2751&volume=26&issue=2&spage=57&epage=66&date=2009&atitle=Shanghai’s+professional+Middle+Class+in+the+wave+of+gentrification:+cause+or+effect? | - |
dc.identifier.email | Wang, J: jwang@ad.arch.hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.email | Lau, SY: ssylau@hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Lau, SY=rp01006 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 159561 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 146597 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 26 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 57 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 66 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.description.other | The International Conference on "Globalization: Cultures, Institutions and Socioeconomics", Hong Kong, China, 12-13 December 2008. In Cities, 2009, v. 26 n. 2, p. 57-66 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0264-2751 | - |