Making Cultural Cities in Asia : Mobility, Assemblage, and the Politics of Aspirational Urbanism (Hardcover)

Introduction Tim Oakes and Jun Wang Part I Assembling new models: Global networks and state aspirations 1. Creative clusters in Shanghai: transnational intermediaries and the creative economy Justin O’connor And Xin Gu 2. Local planning practices and institutional innovation of the creative city: the case of Taipei city Cheng-Yi Lin 3. Sub-national neoliberalism through city restructuring and policy boosterism: A case of Hyderabad, India Diganta Kumar Das 4. Arts districts or art-themed parks: arts districts repurposed by/for Chinese governments Yueming Zhang 5. Spaces of restriction and leisure: Seoul’s vision of the creative city Jay Bowen 6. Housing the arts in a developmental state: Renaissance City Singapore T.C. Chang 7. Staging the glorious past: Han-Tang culture as a governing technique in Xi’an, China Yang Yang 8. Worlding through shanzhai: the evolving art cluster of Dafen in Shenzhen, China Jun Wang Part II Encountering the Cultural/Creative City: Negotiation, Resistance, and Community Aspirations 9. Accessing spaces, negotiating boundaries: the struggle between cultural policies and creative practices in Malaysia Joanne B.Y. Lim 10. Global knowledge and local practices: reinventing cultural policy in Busan, South Korea Se Hoon Park 11. "Creative class" subversions: art spaces in Beijing and Berlin Julie Ren 12. Making cultures and places from below: new urban activism in Hong Kong Agnes Shuk-Mei Ku 13. The cultural grassroots and the authoritarian city: spaces of contestation in Singapore Jason Luger 14. Everyday life of the working class in Mumbai: Transformation, city branding, and gentrification Dwiparna Chatterjee Afterword Creative city policy and social resistance Margit Mayer