[SBE] [Yanning Xiang] [20219268]

As response to socialist modernisation construction and Open-up policy, Tianjin, the former ‘hyper-colonial’city and the most politically complex treaty port in China, has been undergoing a series of urbantransformation since its liberation in 1949 to cover the former branding with new layers of identities. Thethesis will examine the transformation of Minyuan Stadium in Five Avenues area in the former BritishConcession of Tianjin, with a particular interest on the in-between ‘third space’ where the top-down formingand bottom-up using of space can meet and negotiate by spatial production or appropriation respectively.The time focus is from 2004 to 2020, when the transformation process was accelerated by the typicalgovernment-led redevelopment with the rebranding of this area as cultural tourism district, leading to thetrend of total westernisation in architectural representation, spectacular nature in built environment andgentrification in lifestyle. Through the Minyuan Stadium renovation project, the thesis intends tounderstand the regeneration model of Five Avenues and its postrun outcomes, and link them to thefabrication of post-concession identities of the city.

Introduction

Third Space in thePost-concession Era

Minyuan Stadium in TheFive Avenues in Tianjin’sFormer British Concession

Methods

Data collection• Literature collection• Field trip and observation• In-depth interview

Data analysis• Synchronic analysis• Diachronic analysis• Content analysis• Comparative analysis

Urban ContextThesis Structure

Formal Languages and Functions

Research Questions

• How to reexamine the current urban redevelopmentand architectural transformation in ex-BritishConcession of Tianjin, and enrich the understandingof them from post-concession perspective?

• How has the Third Space, the space in-betweenformally-planned space and informally-appropriatedspace, been produced in redevelopment and whatare the values and implication?

Spatial Agents of Renovation 2014

Key Theories

Built heritages of colonialism in China

Hybridity &Third Space Theory

Context

Informal Urbanism

extend

Minyuan Stadium Renovation 2014 in Five Avenues

Case Analysis

context analysis

building analysis

Formal languages and functions

Informal use of spaces

Transformation of Minyuan in history

Typical regeneration model of Five Avenues for cultural tourism

Field

Post-colonial Urbanism

Post-concession Nature

Redevelopment of Five Avenues in Tianjin

case selection

tested by

Informal Spaces

天津市和平区人民政府国有资产监督管理委员会

[State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Heping

District People's Government of Tianjin]

天津和平投资发展集团有限公司[Tianjin Heping District Investment

Development Group Co. Ltd]

天津五大道文化旅游发展有限责任公司

[Tianjin Five Avenues Cultural Tourism Development Co. LTD]

天津市和平区民园地区提升改造工程指挥部[Upgrading and Renovation Project Headquarters of Minyuan Area,

Heping District, Tianjin]

天津市和平区人民政府[People's Government of Heping District,

Tianjin]

博风建筑工程设计有限公司[Bo Feng Architectural Design and Engineering Co., Ltd.]

天津建工集团建筑设计有限公司[Tianjin Construction Engineering Group

Architectural Design Co., LTD]

天津住宅集团_建设工程总承包有限公司[Tianjin Housing Group

Construction Engineering General Contraction Co.LTD]

Pre-operation

Long-term private business operators

Temporary private business operators

Local residents

Tourists

developer

supervise

Post-operation

design scheme

construction unit

constructiondrawing

invest

invest

user

Development Core

Location Regeneration Model