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Reconfiguring the Mountains: Mechanisms and Practices of Chongli's Extended Urbanization Driven by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

This thesis focuses on Chongli, China's first Olympic mountain city, to investigate how the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games have catalyzed the rapid transformation of this mountainous region at the economic, infrastructural, and societal levels. Located ...

EPFL2025

The state-led approach to industrial heritage in China's mega-events: capital accumulation, urban regeneration, and heritage preservation

Mengke Zhang

This paper employs a comparative analysis to investigate the state-led use of industrial heritage in major Chinese mega-events, delving into the three cases of the Guangzhou Asian Games, the Shanghai Expo, and the Beijing Winter Olympics. Examining the evo ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2024

Platform-mediated live musical performance in China: New social practices and urban cultural spaces

Mengke Zhang

This paper provides a non-Anglo-American geographical discussion of digitally mediated cultural activities. Taking China's live music industry as an entry point, we seek to theoretically and empirically understand the complex roles of digital technologies ...

2023

Property rights redistribution and the spatial evolution of the Chinese danwei compound: a case study in Beijing

Mengke Zhang, Teng Zhang

Danwei compounds were the dominant form of urban neighborhood in China's planned economy era. However, since the economic reform, the status of danwei compounds has undergone dramatic changes. By examining the transformation of Hua Gong Da Yuan (HGDY), a d ...

2021