Making Cultural Cities in Asia
Mobility, assemblage, and the politics of aspirational urbanism
By June Wang, Tim Oakes, Yang Yang | Publisher: Taylor and Francis
About the book
This book examines the vast and largely uncharted world of cultural/creative city-making in Asia. It explores the establishment of policy models and practices against the backdrop of a globalizing world, and considers the dynamic relationship between powerful actors and resources that impact Asian cities.
Making Cultural Cities in Asia approaches this dynamic process through the lens of assemblage: how the policy models of cultural/creative cities have been extracted from the flow of ideas, and how re-invented versions have been assembled, territorialized, and exported. This approach reveals a spectrum between globally circulating ideals on the one hand, and the place-based contexts and contingencies on the other. At one end of the spectrum, this book features chapters on policy mobility, in particular the political construction of the \"web\" of communication and the restructuring or rescaling of the state. At the other end, chapters examine the increasingly fragmented social forces, their changing roles in the process, and their negotiations, alignments, and resistances.
This book will be of interest to researchers and policy-makers concerned with cultural and urban studies, creative industries and Asian studies.
Editions of Making Cultural Cities in Asia
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- ISBN 9781317535829
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- ISBN 9781317535836
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This book examines the vast and largely uncharted world of cultural/creative city-making in Asia. It explores the establishment of policy models and practices against the backdrop of a globalizing world, and considers the dynamic relationship between powerful actors and resources that impact Asian cities.
Making Cultural Cities in Asia approaches this dynamic process through the lens of assemblage: how the policy models of cultural/creative cities have been extracted from the flow of ideas, and how re-invented versions have been assembled, territorialized, and exported. This approach reveals a spectrum between globally circulating ideals on the one hand, and the place-based contexts and contingencies on the other. At one end of the spectrum, this book features chapters on policy mobility, in particular the political construction of the \"web\" of communication and the restructuring or rescaling of the state. At the other end, chapters examine the increasingly fragmented social forces, their changing roles in the process, and their negotiations, alignments, and resistances.
This book will be of interest to researchers and policy-makers concerned with cultural and urban studies, creative industries and Asian studies.
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What is Making Cultural Cities in Asia about?
This book examines the vast and largely uncharted world of cultural/creative city-making in Asia. It explores the establishment of policy models and practices against the backdrop of a globalizing world, and considers the dynamic relationship between powerful actors and resources that impact Asian cities.
Making Cultural Cities in Asia approaches this dynamic process through the lens of assemblage: how the policy models of cultural/creative cities have been extracted from the flow of ideas, and how re-invented versions have been assembled, territorialized, and exported. This approach reveals a spectrum between globally circulating ideals on the one hand, and the place-based contexts and contingencies on the other. At one end of the spectrum, this book features chapters on policy mobility, in particular the political construction of the \"web\" of communication and the restructuring or rescaling of the state. At the other end, chapters examine the increasingly fragmented social forces, their changing roles in the process, and their negotiations, alignments, and resistances.
This book will be of interest to researchers and policy-makers concerned with cultural and urban studies, creative industries and Asian studies.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Making Cultural Cities in Asia?
Society and Social Sciences > Society and culture: general > Social groups, communities and identities > Urban communities / city life
Where can I read a sample of Making Cultural Cities in Asia?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781317535829
Is Making Cultural Cities in Asia part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series Regions and Cities
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Making Cultural Cities in Asia?
June Wang, Tim Oakes, Yang Yang
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Making Cultural Cities in Asia is available as ebook(ISBN 9781317535829) and pdf(ISBN 9781317535836)