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Prato ISSN 2239-5725 Urbanities, Vol. 9 · No 1 · May 2019 © 2019 Urbanities Contents Tianzifang: The Dilemma of Urban Renovation at the Turn of the XXI Century 3 Florence Padovani The Politics of Access to Potable Water in a Marginalized Neighbourhood of Cochabamba, Bolivia. 21 Jorge David Mantilla Formalities and Informalities Through Community Policy Forums (CFPS) and Social Networks in an Era of Transformational Politics in South Africa 36 Anand Singh The Strategic Use of Heritage Representations: The Small Towns of Podlasie Province 54 Luďa Klusáková, Halina Parafianowicz, Marlena Brzozowska Fabricating a Steel City: An Ethnography of the Illawarra Steel Industry 74 Jesse Negro Urban Restructuring in Rio de Janeiro: Creative Economy and New Perspectives of Development 91 João Luiz De Figueiredo, João Grand Junior, Silvia Borges Corrêa Book Reviews 108 Paul Chatterton, 2018. Unlocking Sustainable Cities: A Manifesto of Real Change. London: Pluto Press by Sujeet Kumar Judith Noemi Freidenberg. 2016. Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States: The View from Prince George’s County, Maryland. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books by Jerome Krase Erica Robb Larkins. 2015. The Spectacular Favela: Violence in Modern Brazil. University of California Press by Joseph Jay Sosa Ugo Rossi. 2017. Cities Under Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity Press by Jason Luger A.K. Sandoval-Strausz and Nancy H. Kwak (eds) 2018. Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press by Robert Beauregard Francesco Vecchio. 2015. Asylum Seeking and the Global City. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge by Jerome Krase Corine Vedrine. 2019. The Spirit of Capitalism According to the Michelin Company New York: Palgrave Macmillan. by Manos Spyridakis 1 http://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/vol-9-no-1-may-2019/ Urbanities, Vol. 9 · No 1 · May 2019 © 2019 Urbanities Film Reviews 124 Out on the Street. Directed by Jasmina Metwaly and Philip Rizk. by Cristiana Strava É o que guardo dele (It’s what I keep from him). Directed by Hugo Menezes, Iomana Rocha. by Izabella Maria da Silva Medeiros Announcements 127 Advertisements 128 Errata Corrige to Vol 8 No2 Article: Back on the Northside-by keexote, Winter 2018. Kee Warner’s affiliation is University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. 2 http://www.anthrojournal-urbanities.com/vol-9-no-1-may-2019/ Urbanities, Vol. 9 · No 1 · May 2019 © 2019 Urbanities Tianzifang: The Dilemma of Urban Renovation at the Turn of the XXI Century1 Florence Padovani (Paris1-Sorbonne University, France)) [email protected] This article is part of a wider research looking at the impact government decisions have on urban dynamics and urban dwellers in the case of Shanghai and Xi’an, China. The specific case analysed here, the lilong (lanes and alleys) of Tianzifang, demonstrates that even if the transformation of the neighbourhood is an inexorable force pushed by the municipality, other forces are at work. As the discussion will show, the role of artists has been of utmost importance in the case of Tianzifang. Keywords: Neighbourhood, historic preservation, cultural clusters, urban landscape transformation. Major ethnographic studies made by Chinese scholars before the 1990s focused on Chinese rural areas and ethnic and rural minorities immigrating to the city (Engebretsen 2012, Liu 2002). Metropolises such as Beijing and Shanghai were the first to be put under the microscope through ethnographic studies. Today urban studies are well established in the field of Chinese studies. It is generally admitted by scholars in social sciences that long term fieldwork in a specific site is the prerequisite to any in-depth study (Prato and Pardo 2013). Ethnographic work on the ground has been chosen for this article as it is a powerful tool to understand life in our rapidly changing, complex cities (Pardo and Prato 2018: 2). As China is due to be more and more urbanized according to government plans, the study of different kinds of people living together in a specific area of the city is particularly important in order to identify specific issues in contemporary China, present trends and future trajectories. The case presented in this article shows that beyond government plans, a more nuanced approach to urban development is possible. Urbanization is not happening without contradictions, so the discussion will question the compatibility between preserving historic buildings and blocks while the city is modernising and taking new shape at high speed. It will assess this high tension between contradictory objectives. In Shanghai, the latest large-scale urban transformation dates back to the 1990s. At that time, Shanghai started to play once again a leading role in the Chinese economy. This new status is reflected in the discourse of the municipality’s officials, which emphasizes the deep transformation and modernisation processes of the city (Laurens 2005). To borrow the expression from Lu Duanfang’s book title, China today is remaking its urban form (Lu 2006). One focus of this perspective is the city’s new architecture, which is intended, first, to embody its status as a major Asian metropolis and, second, to show its potential to become rapidly a global one as well. For Shanghai leaders, the fact that the municipality was selected in 2002 to host the World Exposition (hereafter referred to as Expo) after a tough competition with five ———————————— 1 I would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers who gave some very useful comments. I would also like to thank Russell L. Moses for his support and good advice. The fieldwork trips in 2010, 2011 and 2012 were funded by PRODIG UMR 8586, the research centre to which I am affiliated.