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Strategies to develop and attract the creative industry and promote new urban cultural identities have been an important part of post-industrial regeneration in cities around the world. There is evidence that similar processes are now underway across China as established cities move away from low-value industrial development and compete to attract higher-value economic activity and skilled workers by investing in cultural industry infrastructures. In this paper we explore how a long-running cultural policy intervention in Shenzhen – the Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (the UABB) – has been used strategically to create infrastructures and atmospheres of urban creativity around art, culture and creative industries as part of an explicit urban repositioning strategy. Drawing on in-depth situated research, the paper examines the processes and impacts associated with the UABB and what it might reveal about the preexisting and changing politics of urban (re)redevelopment in leading Chinese cities.
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