Suburban Allocating Communities For The Removed Citizens From Inner City: Production Of Space Under Renewal And Expansion Of The City

Since 1990's, Shanghai speeds up its city construction, including both old urban blocks' renewal and city area's expansion. Under the background of Shanghai's city development, several large-scaled allocating housing communities have been established in the suburban Shanghai and lots of citizens who used to live in the urban area have been removed into these new housings. With the theory of production of space, this paper intents to explore the social and political rules of the establishment of the large-scaled housing space by observing the whole process of the communities' construction. This paper, first of all, introduces the history of city housing construction in Shanghai in 20^th century. Then, the author pays much more attention to explore how the main social roles, such as the government, real estate developers, removed citizens and communities architectures, play and affect one another in the housing communities' construction. The exploration is concerned about how governments' power runs and realizes, how the citizens' life changes, and how the western city development thought and methods are localized in China.