Abstract:

This article argues that the history of Shanghai as a socialistic city after 1949, consciously or unconsciously, has been falsified, neglected and even forgotten in current city studies. By examining new residential areas of workers in Shanghai, especially the earliest one, i.e., Cao-yang New Residential Area, the article discusses the socialistic space producing as a way to achieve the combination of city reconstruction and the construction of a new life world.

Key words: a socialistic city, new residential areas of workers,  , space producing, life world