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Unfolding China’s urban development: the implementation of public art in Beijing and Shanghai

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posted on 2023-05-21, 01:37 authored by Cheng, H, Julian WorrallJulian Worrall
During China’s speeding urbanization, creating a unique city image to achieve economic growth draws the attention of property developers, urban planners, and city administrations. Through activating urban spaces and creating dynamic urban culture, public art plays an effective role in leading modern urban creative capital investment into China’s urban development. In order to understand the implementation of public art in Beijing and Shanghai, this research aims to analyze the resonance between public art and urbanization in Chinese megacities through selected case studies. The study reveals public art guided by urbanization policy and strategy in metropolitan China, which further unfolds the discontinuous and fragmented relationship between public art, public sphere, and urbanization policies. Through discovering the imbalances between public art investment, implementation, and postimplementation management frameworks, the study provides several approaches to boost China’s urban development for achieving the resonance between public art and urbanization.

History

Publication title

Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism

Article number

1025

Number

1025

Pagination

1-14

ISSN

2717-5626

Department/School

School of Architecture and Design

Publisher

Inno Science Press (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Place of publication

Singapore

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Urban planning; Expanding knowledge in built environment and design