Making cultural cities in Asia : mobility, assemblage, and the politics of aspirational urbanism / edited by Jun Wang, Tim Oakes and Yang Yang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oakes, Tim.

Wang, Jun, 1942 June 4-

Yang, Yang (Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Geography, University of Colorado)

Series:

Regions and cities ; 91.

Regions and Cities ; 93

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban renewal--Asia.

Urban renewal.

Asia--Cultural policy.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

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.

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 city6 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 Korea11 '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

Notes:

"Regional Studies Association, the global forum for city and regiona research, development and policy"--p. [ii].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-72605-X

1-317-53583-9

1-317-53582-0

9781315726052

OCLC:

958107698