Postgraduate Program 2024 Spring 

Lectures on Selected Contemporary China Urban Issues Lecture 7

 Political Economic Analysis

 of Urban Space

Lecturer: 

Prof.Weiqiang WANG

Time: 

Apr 10, 2024

Wednesday, 19:00-20:35

Venue: 

Room D1, 5F, Building D

College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Abstract:

With China’s rapid urbanization, though there are objective laws in shaping the urban form, the overwhelming force that has influence on the form doesn’t subject to aesthetics, but dominated by the political, economic and cultural factors representing the social power. Combined with the main theories studying contemporary urban space, especially the neo-Marxist, neo-Weberian and the globalization of urban space, this course is about to analyze typical cases of Shanghai Urban Renewal, so to reflect the false outcome of Decision Follows Capital, Form Follows Profits, and thereby explaining the dynamic mechanism of urban spatial evolution.

Moderator: Prof. Jiang WU

Time: 19: 00-20: 35, Wednesday

Venue: Room D1, 5F, Building D, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Audience: PHD students of CAUP (Students who have not selected the course are welcome to attend.)