Download or read book Pseudo Public Spaces in Chinese Shopping Malls written by Yiming Wang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Shopping Malls and Public Space in Modern China written by Nicholas Jewell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s rise as an economic superpower has been inescapable. Statistical hyperbole has been accompanied by a plethora of highly publicized architectural forms that brand the regeneration of its increasingly globalized urban centres. Despite the sizeable body of literature that has accompanied China’s modernization, the essence and trajectory of its contemporary cityscape remains difficult to grasp. This volume addresses a less explored aspect of China’s urban rejuvenation - the prominence of the shopping mall as a keystone of its public spaces. Here, the presence of the built form most representative of Western capitalism’s excess is one that makes explicit the tensions between China’s Communist state and its ascent within the ’free’ market. This book examines how these interrelationships are manifested in the culturally hybrid built form of the shopping mall and its role in contesting the ’public’ space of the modern Chinese city. By viewing these interrelationships as collisions of global and local narratives, a more nuanced understanding of the shopping mall typology is explored. Much architectural criticism has failed to address the levels of meaning implicit within the shopping mall, yet it is a building type whose public popularity has guaranteed its endurance. Consequently, if architecture is to remain a relevant social art, a more holistic understanding of this phenomenon will be indispensable to the process of adapting to globalizing forces. This examination of Chinese shopping malls offers a timely and relevant case study of what is happening in all our cities today.
Download or read book Shopping Malls in China written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 76. Chapters: Shopping Centres in Beijing, Shopping Centres in Shanghai, Shopping centres in Hong Kong, International Finance Centre, Chungking Mansions, Langham Place, Hong Kong, New South China Mall, Times Square, K11, Pacific Place, Megabox, Discovery Park, Elements, Hong Kong, ISQUARE, Festival Walk, City God Temple, Amoy Gardens, New Town Plaza, Cityplaza, Olympian City, Peak Tower, Golden Resources Mall, Citygate, Metro Harbour View, Apm, Hong Kong, World Trade Centre, Plaza 66, Chater House, Sceneway Plaza, Landmark North, Harbour City, Kowloon City Plaza, Metro City, Sunshine City, Ma On Shan, Sino Centre, List of shopping centres in Hong Kong, Dragon Centre, World-Wide House, CITIC Plaza, Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, Millennium City, Hong Kong, Sha Tin Plaza, Lucky Plaza, Hong Kong, YOHO Town, Mong Kok Computer Centre, Maritime Square, The Landmark, Tuen Mun Town Plaza, Sun Yuen Long Centre, Grand Gateway Shanghai, Residence Oasis, Wai Wah Centre, Park Central, Ocean Terminal, Hong Kong, Kwai Chung Plaza, Enterprise Square Five, Dennis Shopping Center, Beijing apm, Tsuen Wan City Landmark, Citywalk, Hong Kong, Metroplaza, Tseung Kwan O Plaza, The Gateway, Hong Kong, East Point City, Paradise Mall, Hong Kong International Trade and Exhibition Centre, Tsuen Wan Plaza, Miramar Shopping Centre, SM City Xiamen, New Town Plaza Phase 3, Tung Ying Building, China Hong Kong City, The ONE, Cloud Nine, Man Yee Building, Plaza Hollywood, Citylink Plaza, Luk Yeung Galleria, SkyPlaza, Raffles City Shanghai, Panda Place, City One Plaza, New World Centre, Sha Tin Centre, Concord Square, Skyline Plaza, List of shopping malls in the People's Republic of China, Star House, Ma On Shan Plaza, SM City Jinjiang, Tai Po Mega Mall, Ho King Commercial Building, Cheung Sha Wan Plaza, The Peak Galleria, SM City Chengdu, Tsim Sha Tsui Centre and...
Download or read book Shopping Malls and Public Space in Modern China Socialism and Shopping written by Nicholas Jewell and published by Lund Humphries Publishers. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses a less explored aspect of China's urban rejuvenation - the prominence of the shopping mall as a keystone of its public spaces. Here, the presence of the built form most representative of Western capitalism's excess is one that makes explicit the tensions between China's Communist state and its ascent within the 'free' market. This book examines how these interrelationships are manifested in the culturally hybrid built form of the shopping mall and its role in contesting the 'public' space of the modern Chinese city.
Download or read book Mall City written by Stefan Al and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong is the twenty-first-century paradigmatic capital of consumerism. Of all places, it has the densest and tallest concentration of malls, reaching tens of stories. Hong Kong’s malls are also the most visited, sandwiched between subways and skyscrapers. These mall complexes have become cities in and of themselves, accommodating tens of thousands of people who live, work, and play within a single structure. Mall City features Hong Kong as a unique rendering of an advanced consumer society. Retail space has come a long way since the nineteenth-century covered passages of Paris, which once awed the bourgeoisie with glass roofs and gaslights. It has morphed from the arcade to the department store, and from the mall into the “mall city”—where “expresscalators” crisscross mesmerizing atriums. Highlighting the effects of this development in Hong Kong, this book raises questions about architecture, city planning, culture, and urban life. “At the nexus of density, humidity, topography, and prosperity, Hong Kong has spawned more malls per square mile than any place on earth. This fantastic book decodes and graphically depicts an environment both apart and ubiquitous, a convulsive form of public space in a liquid territory where intensely contested politics, commerce, and sociability weirdly merge in a city like no other.” —Michael Sorkin, distinguished professor of architecture of the City University of New York “Hong Kong may be packed with the most shopping malls per square kilometer in the world, but Mall City is packed with the most drawings, information, and fascinating mall facts. The book dissects, categorizes, and displays all kinds of intriguing data on the city-state’s shopping complexes and culture. Its richly layered analysis perfectly matches Hong Kong’s multi-story machines for consumption.” —Clifford Pearson, director of USC American Academy in China “Stefan Al has again produced a book that provides a sharp lens on radically new urban forms that are emerging in China. While his previous books, Villages in the City andFactory Towns of South China introduced the site of production and housing for the migrant labor of the Pearl River Delta, here we enter the phantasmagoria of the enormous interconnected free-trade shopping zone of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Mall City dissects the basic unit of this climate-controlled consumer landscape—the mall. This beautifully illustrated book is a must-read for those who wish to understand the future of public space in high-density cities.” —Brian McGrath, professor of urban design and dean of constructed environments, Parsons School of Design
Download or read book Retailing in China written by Source Wikipedia and published by University-Press.org. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Chinese brands, Markets in China, Retail companies of China, Shopping districts and streets in China, Shopping malls in China, Lenovo, China Nepstar, Li Ning, Alibaba Group, New South China Mall, Hutchison Whampoa, Nanjing Road, China National Tobacco Corp, Xujiahui, City God Temple, Belle International, Golden Resources Mall, Plaza 66, GOME Electrical Appliances, Alibaba.com, Beijing Antique Market, Wangfujing, Yuyuan Tourist Mart, CITIC Plaza, Shunde, China Furniture Wholesale Market, Watson's Personal Care Stores, O'Che 1867, Grand Gateway Shanghai, Red Market, Sinopharm Group, 361 Degrees, Suning Appliance, Royale Furniture Holdings, Dennis Shopping Center, Chunxilu, Beijing apm, Water Lily Street, King Fook Holdings, SM City Xiamen, Yiwu market, Donghuamen Night Market, Kejian, Cloud Nine, Wumart, Rua do Cunha, Dashang Group, Raffles City Shanghai, Beijing Hualian Group, List of shopping malls in the People's Republic of China, GMI Retail Management, SM City Jinjiang, Mannings, Good Life China Corporation, SM City Chengdu, Jiuguang Department Store, SM Lifestyle Center, Meici, Dunhuang Night Market, Shuijing Xiang Market, Euro Street, Hubin Road, Pinnacle Plaza, Eurasia Shopping Mall. Excerpt: Lenovo Group Limited (SEHK: 0992, OTCBB: LNVGY) (Chinese: pinyin: Lianxi ng jituan y uxian g ngs ) is a Chinese multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures and markets desktops and notebook personal computers, workstations, servers, storage drives, IT management software, and related services. Incorporated as Legend in Hong Kong in 1988, Lenovo's executive headquarters are in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States. Lenovo's principal operations are currently located in Beijing, Morrisville, North Carolina in the United States, and Singapore, with research centers in...
Download or read book The Critical Success Factors for Shopping Malls in China s Second tier Cities written by Xue Li and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book China s New Retail Economy written by Shuguang Wang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retail is the essential link between production and consumption. The dynamics of a nation’s economy cannot be fully understood without a good understanding of its retail sector. This book is written to achieve three broad objectives. First, it provides a comprehensive assessment of the changes in consumption patterns in China, the current size of the Chinese consumer market, and the regional variations. Second, it presents an interpretation of the changes in the country’s regulatory system and the corresponding policy initiatives, including the new state spatial strategies devised after its admission to the WTO. Third, it delivers a systematic analysis of the transformation of China’s retail sector. This includes the entry and expansion of foreign retailers, the development of indigenous retail chains as a national strategy to modernize China’s retail industry, and the changing retailer-supplier relations. This book is a useful reference not only for university students and faculty researchers, but also for international retailers and commercial real estate developers who contemplate business and investment opportunities in China.
Download or read book Lessons for Chinese Mega mall Development written by Lu Ai (S. M.) and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is embracing mega-mall development: Seven out of the ten largest shopping malls in the world will have been located in China by the year 2010. All the completed mega-malls are now suffering from high vacancy rates and therefore experiencing enormous economic losses. To avoid the failure of future mega-mall projects, it is important to establish rigorous guidelines for design, leasing, financing, and management of Chinese mega-malls. However, research in this field has not yet been conducted. This paper will analyze five problematic issues of the South China Mall, the largest shopping mall in the world, and describe a dynamic process involving governments, developers, and banks behind the failure of the Mall. The paper will also provide strategic suggestions on the development and management of the Mall. Given its dimensions and aspirations, the South China Mall is a mirror of contemporary Chinese mega-mall development. It is hoped that lessons from the South China Mall can be applied to other Chinese mega-malls currently experiencing economic stagnancy.
Download or read book The Concrete Dragon written by Thomas J. Campanella and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thomas J. Campanella examines the driving forces behind China's urban revolution and traces both the historical precedents and increasingly globalized flow of ideas, trends, and information that have combined to create a brave new Chinese cityscape. He provides a critical overview of Chinese urban development in light of both China's past and previous experiences of rapid urbanization elsewhere in the world - especially that of the United States, a nation that itself once set global records for the speed and scale of its urban ambitions."--Jacket.
Download or read book Shopping Malls China December 2020 written by Mintel Group Ltd. and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposed Shopping Mall Design in Abuja Nigeria Application of Cooling Strategies written by Evelyn Akande and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2022 in the subject Art - Architecture / History of Construction, grade: 5.0 (A), , course: Msc. Architecture, language: English, abstract: The focus of this master’s thesis was on design approaches that would lessen the need for artificial means of boosting passive cooling. Accordingly, this study made the recommendation that shopping mall design incorporate passive cooling strategies through appropriate building orientation, adequate planting and installation of green landscape elements, efficient use and proper positioning of shading devices, and careful selection of building materials that allow for adequate thermal insulation. Shopping malls are now far more complex in terms of both space and interior operations, dispelling the notion that they exist solely for retail sales. The mall serves as a significant urban development hub and provides customers with shopping, entertainment, leisure, and recreation. Shopping malls have evolved to a closed building envelope as a result of this scale increase, necessitating the deployment of additional machinery to handle the mall’s interior heat. Numerous malls in Nigeria only employ mechanical cooling systems, which raises their operational costs in terms of purchase, installation, and maintenance. Therefore, the goal of this project was to create a shopping center that used passive cooling techniques in its architecture. The objectives assessed the characteristic of shopping mall design, the cooling strategies used in shopping malls and the architectural design considerations for cooling. Thirteen case studies were selected using the random sampling techniques. Utilizing an observation checklist and the variable for each objective, data from the chosen case studies were collected. The statistical tool SPSS was used to evaluate the data that was gathered. To ascertain the percentages of various variables for the characteristics of shopping mall architecture and the cooling strategies utilized in the chosen samples, a descriptive survey method of analysis was used with an observation schedule. Findings revealed the frequency of the variables used throughout the study, and it was concluded from the chosen case studies that shopping malls in Nigeria rely more on active cooling systems than passive cooling strategies, with mechanical cooling being used in 76.9% of the malls examined and mechanical and passive cooling being used in 23.1% of the malls. Additionally, the results showed that 7.7% of the areas featured lakes, pools, and fountains, respectively. However, 76.9% of the malls lacked evaporative cooling systems.
Download or read book Summary of China s Super Consumers Review Keypoints and Take aways written by PenZen Summaries and published by by Mocktime Publication. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The summary of China’s Super Consumers – What 1 Billion Customers Want and How to Sell it to Them presented here include a short review of the book at the start followed by quick overview of main points and a list of important take-aways at the end of the summary. The Summary of China's Super Consumers is the go-to guidebook for international businesses that want to break into the Chinese market and sell their wares to Chinese consumers. These ideas will take you through the opportunities and challenges that exist in this vast and diverse country, and they will provide you with valuable information about how to succeed in the country's distinctive business environment. China’s Super Consumers summary includes the key points and important takeaways from the book China’s Super Consumers by Savio Chan and Michael Zakkour. Disclaimer: 1. This summary is meant to preview and not to substitute the original book. 2. We recommend, for in-depth study purchase the excellent original book. 3. In this summary key points are rewritten and recreated and no part/text is directly taken or copied from original book. 4. If original author/publisher wants us to remove this summary, please contact us at [email protected].
Download or read book China s New Consumers written by Elisabeth Croll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining economic trends with the author’s anthropological background, China’s New Consumers details the livelihoods and lifestyles of China's new and evolving social categories.
Download or read book Retail Market Study 2014 written by Marc-Christian Riebe and published by The Location Group . This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 1503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Retail Market Study 2014 of The Location Group is the one and only study of its kind with 150 of the most notable international cities of the fashion and retail world and 3'000 store openings on 1,500 pages. Over 1,000 retailers, 800 shopping streets and 500 shopping centers were analyzed. The study reached more than 100,000 readers worldwide so far.
Download or read book Exporting Chinese Architecture written by Charlie Qiuli Xue and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the unexplored history of China-aided architecture erected in the developing world since the 1950s. By 2019, over 1,000 buildings had been delivered to more than 160 countries, including parliament houses, convention centers, stadiums, gymnasiums, theaters, schools, hospitals, libraries, railways, and stations. These projects, which have played a significant role in promoting economic transformation, cultural engagement and social and environmental well-being, have largely been overlooked or misunderstood by the international community. Why did China donate so many foreign-aid buildings? How were these buildings built in the remote land of developing countries with intricate influences and limited resources? Have they helped modernize the recipient countries? The authors of this book use a wide range of representative projects built in different historic periods and geographical locations as case studies to address the above questions from various perspectives. This book fills an enormous gap in modern architecture in China and the world. It offers architectural students and scholars in various disciplines the necessary knowledge on "diplomatic architecture"; informs architects the appropriate methods of cross-border design and low-tech building; teaches government officials the best practice of donating and receiving foreign-aid buildings; and enhances public awareness of cultural diversity in Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Latin America. With abundant first-hand materials, historical pictures, and drawings, the book is a must-read for those who are interested in modern architecture and developmental aid in the world. China’s architecture abroad, notably in Africa and Asia, has been perceived with both fascination and anxiety. Based on a wealth of sources often difficult to access for scholars from outside China, this book links the history and present of China’s architectural mobilities in ways that will stimulate new debates in architectural history and urban studies. - Łukasz Stanek, Professor of Architectural History, The University of Manchester, UK
Download or read book Styling Shanghai written by Christopher Breward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Styling Shanghai is the first book dedicated to exploring the city's fashion cultures, examining its growing status as one of the world's foremost fashion cities. From its origins as an international treaty port in the 19th century, Shanghai has emerged as a global leader in the production, mediation and consumption of fashion. This book reveals how the material and imaginative context of this thriving urban centre has produced vivid interpretations of fashion as object, image and idea. Bringing together contributions by a range of leading international fashion historians and theorists, and drawing on extensive original research, Styling Shanghai offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the mega-city's shifting position as a fashion capital. Rooted in collaboration between leading UK, Australian and Shanghai-based institutions, it considers the impact of local and global textile manufacturing, the representation and marketing of 'Shanghai Style', bodies and gender in the 'Paris of the East', and the challenges of globalization, commercialization and digital communication in contemporary Shanghai.
