Manual of Mutants, Hybrids, Endangered, Super Species / MMHESS

Strategies / 01 Territory / Gentrification

GENTRIFICATION / ANALYSIS Tianzifang, Shanghai / 田子坊, 上海

Ruinjin Second Road 32,731 ¥ /m2

Jiangu Rd, No. 139 77,604 ¥ /m2

Tianzifang Guanlichu 78,156 ¥ /m2 Sinan Road, 115 Long 37,208 ¥ /m2

Lane 210, Tianzifang, Shanghai

Tianzifang and surrounding area, Shanghai

Real Estate values: Tianzifang and surrounding blocks Tianzifang’s success has led to rising property costs in the area, compared to the almost 50% of that in surrounding areas. There are around 33 galleries in the area, compared to 135 shops. However, two-thirds of its original residents lived here as of 2010, but gentrification is slowly taking over.

MMHESS / Summer 2011 Studio / Investigator / Alice Huang

Lane 210 in 2001 and now. The area is changing and evolving to accommodate its new popularity and resulting clientele.

Manual of Mutants, Hybrids, Endangered, Super Species / MMHESS

Published on May 23, 2021

Yehre Suh / Urban Terrains Lab

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With the chaotic pace of development and expansion of global metropolises, traditional fabric of cities have become hybridized with the new to form mutant and hybrid species of the urban terrain. The new metropolitan city is a site of natural selection between the new, the old, the new old, and the old new through processes of transition, negotiation, mitigation, preservation, erasure and reconstruction. And within the informal dynamic of cities like Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul, fueled by forces of globalization, discussions of preservation and cultural identity can only progress under the rubric of nationalism, tourism and marketability. As biologists who embark on travels to far distant lands to discover new and hybrid species of the ecological system, we embark on a trip to the old and new cities of China, Japan and Korea to investigate and document the conflicts and negotiations between the traditional fabric of the city and the new urban transformations of globalization and its agencies.

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