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Ageing population and rapid urbanisation are the two major
demographic shifts in today's world. Architectural designs and
urban policies have to deal with issues of an ever larger elderly
population living in the cities, especially in old urban
neighbourhoods, while also taking into consideration the evolving
lifestyles and wellbeing of the diverse elderly demographic. Being
able to continue living in these existing urban neighbourhoods
would thus require necessary interventions, both to adapt the
changing needs of the ageing population and to improve the
deteriorating environment for better liveability. Creative Ageing
Cities discusses the participation and contribution of the ageing
population as a positive and creative force towards urban design
and place-making, particularly in high-density urban contexts, as
observed in a collection of empirical cases found in rapidly ageing
Asian cities. This book is the first to bring together
multidisciplinary scholastic research on ageing and urban issues
from across top six ageing cities in Asia: Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo,
Taipei, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. Through these case studies, this
book gives a good overview of diverse challenges and opportunities
in the various Asian urban contexts and offers a new perspective of
an ageing and urban design framework that emphasises
multi-stakeholder collaboration, inter-generational relations and
the collective wisdom of older people as a source of creativity.
Ageing population and rapid urbanisation are the two major
demographic shifts in today's world. Architectural designs and
urban policies have to deal with issues of an ever larger elderly
population living in the cities, especially in old urban
neighbourhoods, while also taking into consideration the evolving
lifestyles and wellbeing of the diverse elderly demographic. Being
able to continue living in these existing urban neighbourhoods
would thus require necessary interventions, both to adapt the
changing needs of the ageing population and to improve the
deteriorating environment for better liveability. Creative Ageing
Cities discusses the participation and contribution of the ageing
population as a positive and creative force towards urban design
and place-making, particularly in high-density urban contexts, as
observed in a collection of empirical cases found in rapidly ageing
Asian cities. This book is the first to bring together
multidisciplinary scholastic research on ageing and urban issues
from across top six ageing cities in Asia: Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo,
Taipei, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. Through these case studies, this
book gives a good overview of diverse challenges and opportunities
in the various Asian urban contexts and offers a new perspective of
an ageing and urban design framework that emphasises
multi-stakeholder collaboration, inter-generational relations and
the collective wisdom of older people as a source of creativity.
A cultural turn took place in Korea during the 1990s, amid the
economic prosperity driven by state-led industrialization and the
collapse of the military dictatorship due to democratization
movements. Cultural critiques, emerging as an alternative to social
movements, proliferated to assert the freedom and autonomy of
individuals against regulatory systems and institutions. The nation
was hit by the Asian financial crisis in 1997, and witnessed
massive economic restructuring including layoffs, stakeouts, and a
prevalence of contingent employment. As a result, the entire nation
had to find new engines of economic growth while experiencing a
creative destruction. At the center of this national
transformation, Seoul has sought to recreate itself from a mega
city to a global city, equipped with cutting-edge knowledge
industries and infrastructures. By juxtaposing the cultural turn
and cultural/creative city-making, Entrepreneurial Seoulite
interrogates the formation of new citizen subjectivity, namely the
enterprising self, in post-Fordist Seoul. What kinds of logic guide
individuals in the engagement of new urban realities in rapidly
liberalized Seoul-culturally and economically? In order to explore
this query, Mihye Cho draws on Weber's concept of "the spirit of
capitalism" on the formation of a new economic agency focusing on
the re-configuration of meanings, and seeks to capture a
transformative moment detailing when and how capitalism requests a
different spirit and lifestyle of its participants. Likewise, this
book approaches the enterprising self as the new spirit of
post-Fordist Seoul and explores the ways in which people in Seoul
internalize and negotiate this new enterprising self.
A cultural turn took place in Korea during the 1990s, amid the
economic prosperity driven by state-led industrialization and the
collapse of the military dictatorship due to democratization
movements. Cultural critiques, emerging as an alternative to social
movements, proliferated to assert the freedom and autonomy of
individuals against regulatory systems and institutions. The nation
was hit by the Asian financial crisis in 1997, and witnessed
massive economic restructuring including layoffs, stakeouts, and a
prevalence of contingent employment. As a result, the entire nation
had to find new engines of economic growth while experiencing a
creative destruction. At the center of this national
transformation, Seoul has sought to recreate itself from a mega
city to a global city, equipped with cutting-edge knowledge
industries and infrastructures. By juxtaposing the cultural turn
and cultural/creative city-making, Entrepreneurial Seoulite
interrogates the formation of new citizen subjectivity, namely the
enterprising self, in post-Fordist Seoul. What kinds of logic guide
individuals in the engagement of new urban realities in rapidly
liberalized Seoul--culturally and economically? In order to explore
this query, Mihye Cho draws on Weber's concept of ""the spirit of
capitalism"" on the formation of a new economic agency focusing on
the re-configuration of meanings, and seeks to capture a
transformative moment detailing when and how capitalism requests a
different spirit and lifestyle of its participants. Likewise, this
book approaches the enterprising self as the new spirit of
post-Fordist Seoul and explores the ways in which people in Seoul
internalize and negotiate this new enterprising self.
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