- Beijing bicycle in the light of contemporary theories on space/place
- The severe verticality of those skyscrapers, glass pyramids and high rises of modernists icons represents a striking contrast to the styles of old city
- Economic, globalization and urbanization have fundamentally changed topographic and social spaces in contemporary urban China.
- “Urban topography” –glamorous public spaces, glittering global sites, and luxurious apartments along the shadowy street corners of gray profession “Hutong”
- The urban experience is replacing the rural one in representing China’s identity and national experience.
- The fundamental transition to urban China is best captured in contemporary Chinese fiction and film.
- The city is no longer simply a passive backdrop, a stage , a setting or existential environment, but a major player, a crucial dramatic element in the drama of modernization and globalization.
- Beijing, has a hundreds of years history, their contemporary urban modernization and fundamental transformation can be said to have experienced a historical compression.
- The “reality” of the city or the town, urban place, is already the result of the cultural act of classification. “the notion of the city’ the city itself, is representation.
- “The city constitutes an imagined environment, what is involved in that imaging—the discourses, symbols, metaphors, and fantasies.”
- A place is a locale invested with human meanings and actions “meaningful location” it is specifically located. Place has gained importance in the theory of human geography as the locale for the forming community, personal or national identity and negotiating diverse economic, social and global forces.
- Space is understood as bother being produced by socioeconomic forces and cultural practices, and producing politics, knowledge and social power and social relations. Space is a social product.
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