The Disappeared Shantytown——Research on Urban Renewal of Five Residential Areas on Shaanxi Road in Shanghai

This paper studies five residential areas at the crossroad of Shaanxi Road and Jianguo Road. These areas bring together the four main forms of residence in downtown of Shanghai. Luxury residential estate take the place of the last ghetto nearby. The façades of the crossroads tell the whole story about urban renewal of urban housing in Shanghai. Based on the analysis of the history, economy, culture and living conditions of the five blocks, the article summarizes the four reasons for these urban changes (crowd rigid demand, historical conservation movements, economic threshold，cultural power of discourse). Compared with the appearance of changing policy, it further reveals the negative impact brought by the elimination-mechanism that Shanghai used to efface all her shanty town from the map. It indicates the connection between urban vitality and class diversification, which provides a balanced-basis for policy setting of urban renewal movement in future.

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