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Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities - Creating New Urban Landscapes in Asia (Hardcover)
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Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities - Creating New Urban Landscapes in Asia (Hardcover)
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This book is a welcome and timely analysis of how global economic
and financial powerhouses in Asia also aim to become global
cultural cities. It critically examines the tension between
top-down policies implemented by strong states to boost urban
culture, which are typically focused on the hardware of iconic
venues, museums, and opera houses mostly designed by famous western
architects, and the need for freedom to enable more organic
cultural initiatives rooted in local practices.' - Robert C.
Kloosterman, University of Amsterdam, the NetherlandsWhile 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 about
cultural and creative clusters and reveal the many complexities in
the art of city-making. This noteworthy study will appeal to
undergraduate and graduate students, as well as academics from a
variety of disciplines ranging from urban and cultural geography to
Asian studies. Arts and cultural policy makers and artists will
also find this a fascinating read. Contents: 1. Arts spaces, New
Urban Landscapes and Global Cultural Cities PART I 2. The National
Grand Theatre in a City of Monuments: Discourse and Reality in the
Construction of Beijing's New Cultural Space 3. Rivalling Beijing
and the World: Realizing Shanghai's Ambitions through Cultural
Infrastructure 4. Hong Kong's Dilemmas and the Changing Fates of
West Kowloon Cultural District 5. The Making of a 'Renaissance
City': Building Cultural Monuments in Singapore 6. In Search of New
Homes: The Absent New Cultural Monument in Taipei PART II 7.
Cultural Creativity, Clustering and the State in Beijing 8.
Remaking Shanghai's Old Industrial Spaces: The Growth and Growth of
Creative Precincts 9. Factories and Animal Depots: The 'New' Old
Spaces for the Arts in Hong Kong 10. Reusing Old Factory Spaces in
Taipei: The Challenges of Developing Cultural Parks 11. From
Education to Enterprise in Singapore: Converting Old Schools to New
Artistic and Aesthetic Use 12. Culture, Globalization and Urban
Landscapes References Index
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