The Impacts Of Online Community On Zhujiajiao Renewal In Shanghai

Information technology has entered our life for several decades. It is widely believed information technology has had a profound impact on urban space, and did a large number of studies on it. However, as the factors affecting urban space is variety and intertwined, it is hard to find a suitable case to extract the element of information technology clearly. There are two ways current research mainly through. One way is to infer how the impact of information technology on people’s activities to impact the urban space, another is through logical reasoning. Therefore, the significance of finding a right case to an empirical test of the existing research results, or to find new influences characteristics are very important.This article is just based on this point, to analyze the key role of the network forces playing in Zhujiajiao ancient town renewal, extract the renewal area and renewal period which the power of the internet play’ (?) a leading role in, analyze the social form, substance spatial form, spatial form and economic patterns influenced by the power of internet, and then explore the characteristics and manner of the influence on urban spatial variation.The Zhujiajiao renewal process, includes the tourism infancy dominated by the market forces before 1997, the repair and construction stage which is sightseeing tours based and dominated by government forces from 1998 to 2002, the cultural enclave formation stage dominated by the network forces from 2005 to 2010, and the stage of cultural development movement which government has become the dominant once again. In the update history more than 20 years, although the internet force appeared late and short, but played a key role in the Zhujiajiao renewal, and determined the develop path of cultural and creative industries.In Zhujiajiao renewal process, the internet power played a leading role mainly in the region of the herringbone river intersection, including Caohe Street, West Well Street and East Well Street. The internet power has had an important impact on the region’s social, physical space, cultural space and economic patterns.In terms of social forms, the region formed a crowd which is young, highly educated, tired of city life, and pursuit for freedom and the social relations which is correlated by interest instead of geopolitical or affinity. In terms of physical space, the forms of blocks did not have changed. In terms of cultural space forms, the region formed a system of symbols by the type,name, decoration and activities of the shops, and shaped a literary and artistic atmosphere. In terms of economic form, the renewal enriched the kinds of commercial activities, attracted the arts and cultural industries, and activates local rental market.Through the study of Zhujiajiao case, this paper considers there are at least there aspects which the impact of online community on the change of urban space reflected. Firstly, the online community promote the formation of the symbolic space. Secondly, the online community accelerates the formation of the enclave and space fragmentation. Thirdly, the online community helps the formation of the bottom-up renewal model.The whole thesis contains about 53 000 words,27 pictures and charts.