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Making Cultural Cities in Asia : Mobility, Assemblage, and the Politics of Aspirational Urbanism.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Regions and Cities SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317535836
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making Cultural Cities in AsiaLOC classification:
  • HT178.A78M35 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- PART I Assembling new models: global networks and state aspirations -- Section introduction -- 1 Creative clusters in Shanghai: transnational intermediaries and the creative economy -- 2 Local planning practices and institutional innovation of the creative city: the case of Taipei City -- 3 Sub-national neoliberalism through city restructuring and policy boosterism: the case of Hyderabad, India -- 4 Arts districts or art-themed parks: arts districts repurposed by/for Chinese governments -- 5 Spaces of restriction and leisure: Seoul's vision of the creative city -- 6 Housing the arts in a developmental state: Renaissance City Singapore -- 7 Displaying Han-Tang culture in urban development projects in Xi'an, China -- 8 Worlding through shanzhai: the evolving art cluster of Dafen in Shenzhen, China -- PART II Encountering the cultural/creative city: negotiation, resistance, and community aspirations -- Section introduction -- 9 Accessing spaces, negotiating boundaries: the struggle between cultural policies and creative practices in Malaysia -- 10 Global knowledge and local practices: reinventing cultural policy in Busan, South Korea -- 11 'Creative class' subversions: art spaces in Beijing and Berlin -- 12 Making cultures and places from below: new urban activism in Hong Kong -- 13 The cultural grassroots and the authoritarian city: spaces of contestation in Singapore -- 14 Gentrification in the mill lands of Mumbai: changing spatial practices and everyday life in working-class chawls -- 15 Afterword: creative city policy and social resistance -- Index.
Summary: This book examines the vast and largely uncharted world of cultural/creative city-making in Asia. It explores the establishment of policy models and practices against the backdrop of a globalizing world, and considers the dynamic relationship between powerful actors and resources that impact Asian cities.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction -- PART I Assembling new models: global networks and state aspirations -- Section introduction -- 1 Creative clusters in Shanghai: transnational intermediaries and the creative economy -- 2 Local planning practices and institutional innovation of the creative city: the case of Taipei City -- 3 Sub-national neoliberalism through city restructuring and policy boosterism: the case of Hyderabad, India -- 4 Arts districts or art-themed parks: arts districts repurposed by/for Chinese governments -- 5 Spaces of restriction and leisure: Seoul's vision of the creative city -- 6 Housing the arts in a developmental state: Renaissance City Singapore -- 7 Displaying Han-Tang culture in urban development projects in Xi'an, China -- 8 Worlding through shanzhai: the evolving art cluster of Dafen in Shenzhen, China -- PART II Encountering the cultural/creative city: negotiation, resistance, and community aspirations -- Section introduction -- 9 Accessing spaces, negotiating boundaries: the struggle between cultural policies and creative practices in Malaysia -- 10 Global knowledge and local practices: reinventing cultural policy in Busan, South Korea -- 11 'Creative class' subversions: art spaces in Beijing and Berlin -- 12 Making cultures and places from below: new urban activism in Hong Kong -- 13 The cultural grassroots and the authoritarian city: spaces of contestation in Singapore -- 14 Gentrification in the mill lands of Mumbai: changing spatial practices and everyday life in working-class chawls -- 15 Afterword: creative city policy and social resistance -- Index.

This book examines the vast and largely uncharted world of cultural/creative city-making in Asia. It explores the establishment of policy models and practices against the backdrop of a globalizing world, and considers the dynamic relationship between powerful actors and resources that impact Asian cities.

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