Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities

Lily Kong, Ching Chia-ho and Chou Tsu-Lung

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Abstract: While global cities have mostly been characterized as sites of intensive and extensive economic activity, the quest for global city status also increasingly rests on the creative production and consumption of culture and the arts. Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities examines such ambitions and projects undertaken in five major cities in Asia: Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei and Singapore. Providing a thorough comparison of their urban imaging strategies and attempts to harness arts and culture, as well as more organically evolved arts activities and spaces, this book analyses the relative successes and failures of these cities. Offering rich ethnographic detail drawn from extensive fieldwork, the authors challenge city strategies and existing urban theories and reveal the many complexities in the art of city-making.

Keywords: Asian Studies; Economics and Finance; Geography; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
ISBN: 9781849801768
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Arts spaces, new urban landscapes and global cultural cities , pp 1-28

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Ch 2 The National Grand Theatre in a city of monuments: discourse and reality in the construction of Beijing's new cultural space , pp 31-48

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Ch 3 Rivalling Beijing and the world: realizing Shanghai's ambitions through cultural infrastructure , pp 49-63

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Ch 4 Hong Kong's dilemmas and the changing fates of West Kowloon Cultural District , pp 64-81

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Ch 5 The making of a 'Renaissance City': building cultural monuments in Singapore , pp 82-97

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Ch 6 In search of new homes: the absent new cultural monument in Taipei , pp 98-114

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Ch 7 Cultural creativity, clustering and the state in Beijing , pp 117-139

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Ch 8 Remaking Shanghai's old industrial spaces: the growth and growth of creative precincts , pp 140-159

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Ch 9 Factories and animal depots: the ‘new’ old spaces for the arts in Hong Kong , pp 160-172

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Ch 10 Reusing old factory spaces in Taipei: the challenges of developing cultural parks , pp 173-190

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Ch 11 From education to enterprise in Singapore: converting old schools to new artistic and aesthetic use , pp 191-210

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Ch 12 Culture, globalization and urban landscapes , pp 211-224

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