A graduate student in human geography

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‘deterritorialized’, it is subject to transformation through the ‘reterritorialization’ process (Short and Kim 1999, 4), thus producing local forms. These local forms, although they demonstrate some superficial similarities with the local milieu where they originally developed, are embedded into the socio-cultural environment.

Source:

Wu F (2004b) Transplanting cityscapes: Townhouse and gated community in globalization and housing commodification in Beijing. Area 36(3):227-234.

Writer’s text:

Wu argues that the transformed landscape has experienced ‘deterritorialization’ and ‘reterritorialization’ (Short and Kim,1994, p.4) and then embedded in the local socio-cultural environment, thus having a local form (Wu, 2004,p.229).

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I highlighted this because this author also cited another author’s context.