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Function · Governance · Culture A Tripartite Pathway for Reconstructing New-Type Reading Spaces—A Case Study of Shanghai Practices

Cai Wenjie, Guo Limin(Shanghai Library)   

  • Online:2025-11-15 Published:2025-11-26
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    Cai Wenjie, Guo Limin(Shanghai Library)

Abstract:

The reconstruction of new-type reading spaces has become an important pathway for promotingthe high-quality development of public cultural services. Based on Lefebvre‘s theory of spatialproduction this paper constructs a three-dimensional analytical framework of  functional integrationcollaborativegovernance-cultural localization and applies it to empirical case studies of the ShanghaiLibrary East Xujiahui Academy and Hongkou Peace Academy. The findings reveal that functionhybridization expands spatial boundaries and enhances the service efficiency and coverage throughtechnological embedding and business integration collaborative governance achieves a dynamic balancebetween public welfare and sustainability through a multi-party co-governance mechanism and culturallocalization strengthens cultural identity and a sense of belonging by activating historical context andcommunity memory. These three are interwoven to form a linkage mechanism of  technologicalempowerment—institutional collaboration—cultural inheritance. Building on these insights this paperfurther proposes optimization strategies such as joint operation of the main and branch librariestechnology-empowered scenarios and property rights separation reform providing replicable and scalablepractical approaches for the reconstruction of new-type reading spaces.

Key words:

New-type reading spaces, Theory of the production of space, Functional integration, Collaborative governance, Cultural localization