ABSTRACT
Shenzhen’s infrastructural development is exceptional; each of its investments is planned to create new centers of development: minor locations of new residential density at suburban subway stops, significant strategic developments at interchange points between lines, or in places with a greater density of infrastructures. From 1949 to 1976, Chinese infrastructures were controlled exclusively by the state, but under contemporary neoliberal capitalism in Shenzhen, infrastructures are unbundled and privatized, provided through a mixed public/private regime. This chapter explores how such a regime has organized the city as a profit surface, not only through hard borders but also through concentration of value in specific public places.
