Searching for economic and cosmopolitan roots: the historical discourse of “Hankou Merchant Port Nostalgia” in the central Chinese City of Wuhan 武汉

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2018-1-19

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LAW, Andrew M.
QIN, Qianqian

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This paper has two main lines of investigation: firstly, we shall explore the process by which selective remembering, histories and heritage are converted into new form of competitive urban cultural capital; secondly, this paper points to the critical dangers and problematics that emerge when selective remembering and historic urban branding lead to the production of new urban landscapes and commercial spaces; as we shall demonstrate, selective remembering and branding can sabotage and displace communities, informal economies,histories, lives and subjectivities.

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Place-marketing;, Urban-branding, Wuhan, Nostalgia, China

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http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/articles/metujfa2017214.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/50643

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Department of Architecture, Article