Made in the city of China

Made in the city of China: Street market as infrastructure to create conditions for inclusive urbanization

Li, Yigang (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Nijhuis, S. (mentor)
de Carvalho Filho, L.M. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

European Master in Urbanism (EMU)

2021-07-05

The thesis conducts spatial explorations through design and discusses the possibilities of using the street market as infrastructure to facilitate collective making and create conditions for inclusive urbanization through achieving supply justice. The street market is a spatial vehicle that can deliver the thesis goal. Supply justice as a development strategy can incubate and mobilize the collective networks carried by the street market to practice inclusive urbanization. The collective making and street market as two symbiotic urban networks are potent instruments in promoting supply justice. Together, they can trigger collective actions in the urbanization process and effectively address the challenge from the dominating supply companies. The thesis categorized four themes to explore the street market’s capacity and transferability as infrastructure for inclusive urbanization.

street market
inclusive urbanization
city of making

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8e8347a6-fcc2-482e-9e72-4a45f31cfacd

36.069309, 120.317097

1. Hummel, Calla. “Disobedient markets: Street vendors, enforcement, and state intervention in collective action.” Comparative Political Studies 50, no. 11 (2017): 1524-1555. 2. Lee, Brandon H., Jeroen Struben, and Christopher B. Bingham. “Collective action and market formation: An integrative framework.” Strategic Management Journal 39, no. 1 (2018): 242-266. 3. Tong, Xiao, and Jana M. Hawley. “Measuring customer based brand equity: Empirical evidence from the sportswear market in China.” Journal of product & brand management (2009). 4. Pang, Ching Lin, and Sara Sterling. “From Fake Market to a Strong Brand? The Silk Street Market in Beijing.” Built Environment 39, no. 2 (2013): 224- 235. 5. Hanser, Amy. “Street politics: Street vendors and urban governance in China.” China Q. (2016): 363. 6. Golini, Ruggero, Cindy Guerlain, Alexandra Lagorio, and Roberto Pinto. “An assessment framework to support collective decision making on urban freight transport.” Transport 33, no. 4 (2018): 890-901. 7. Barker, Joshua. “Negara Beling: Street-level authority in an Indonesian slum.” In State of Authority, pp. 47-72. Cornell University Press, 2018. 8. Duhau, Emilio. “Five. The Informal City: An Enduring Slum or a Progressive Habitat?.” In Cities From Scratch, pp. 150-169. Duke University Press, 2014. 9. De Bruin, Anne, and Ann Dupuis. “The dynamics of New Zealand’s largest street market; the Otara flea market.” International journal of sociology and social policy (2000). 10. Kinoshita, Hikaru. “The street market as an urban facility in Hong Kong.” In Public Places in Asia Pacific Cities, pp. 71-86. Springer, Dordrecht, 2001. 11. Dines, Nick. “The disputed place of ethnic diversity: an ethnography of the redevelopment of a street market in East London.” Regenerating London: governance, sustainability and community in a global city (2009): 254-272. 124

Student theses

master thesis

© 2021 Yigang Li