The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world 's most
compelling theatre of accelerated globalization and industrial
restructuring. Following a spectacular realization of the
industrialization paradigm and a period of services-led growth, the
early twenty-first century economic landscape among leading Asian
states now comprises a burgeoning New Economy spectrum of the most
advanced industrial trajectories, including finance, the knowledge
economy and the new cultural economy . In an agenda-setting volume,
New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities draws on stimulating research
conducted by a new generation of urban scholars to generate
critical analysis and theoretical insights on the New Economy
phenomenon within Asia.
New industry formation and the transformation of older economic
practices constitute instruments of development, as well as
signifiers of larger processes of change, expressed in the
reproduction of space in the city. Asia 's major cities become the
key staging areas for the New Economy, driven by the growing wealth
of an urban middle and professional class, higher education
institutions, city-based inter-regional movements and urban
mega-projects. New Economic Spaces in Asian Cites animates this New
Economy discourse by means of vibrant storylines of instructive
cities and sites, including cases studies situated in cities such
as Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, and Singapore.
Theoretical and normative issues associated with the emergence of
the new cultural economy are the subject of the book 's
context-setting chapters, and each case study presents an evocative
narrative of development interdependencies and exemplary outcomes
on the ground.
New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities offers a vivid contribution
to our understanding of the ongoing transformation of Asia 's urban
system, including the critical intersections of global and
local-regional dynamics in processes of new industry formation and
the relayering of space in the Asian metropolis. The synthesis of
empirical profiles, normative insights, and theoretical reference
points enhances the book 's interest for scholars and students in
fields of Asian studies, urban and cultural studies, and urban and
economic geography, as well as for policy specialists and
urban/community planners.
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