The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation: Beijing, Chicago, and Paris

(University of Minnesota Press) Though it is a practice almost as old as the cities themselves, urban preservation has become increasingly controversial in today’s cities. Drawing on archival research and interviews conducted in Beijing, Chicago, and Paris, Yue Zhang offers a comparative analysis of the politics of urban preservation and sheds light on this complex policy process. Zhang is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Illinois, Chicago.