Role of Creative Classes in Community Restructuring through Urban Agriculture:Case Study from Shanghai, China

In recent years, China’s rapid urbanization has had a major impact on traditional social and human relationships, and urban communities have weakened, making community restructuring an important issue. In Shanghai, efforts to start urban agriculture such as community gardens and rooftop farms that emphasize social functions such as exchanges between urban residents are increasing. For example, the spread of community gardens may create a virtuous cycle for building new communities as well as improving the satisfaction of residents’ community life （Ge et al. 2022）. Also, these new types of urban agriculture are promoted by social entrepreneurs as a creative class and solve urban social problems through the creation of shared value （Kiminami et al., 2022b）. However, few studies have focused on the relationships between the creative class and communities in urban agriculture （Exner and Schützenberger 2018）.