ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

part |130 pages

Assembling new models

chapter |15 pages

Creative clusters in Shanghai

Transnational intermediaries and the creative economy

chapter |11 pages

Arts districts or art-themed parks

Arts districts repurposed by/for Chinese governments

chapter |18 pages

Spaces of restriction and leisure

Seoul's vision of the creative city

chapter |16 pages

Housing the arts in a developmental state

Renaissance City Singapore

chapter |16 pages

Worlding through shanzhai

The evolving art cluster of Dafen in Shenzhen, China

part |106 pages

Encountering the cultural/creative city

chapter |14 pages

Accessing spaces, negotiating boundaries

The struggle between cultural policies and creative practices in Malaysia

chapter |14 pages

Global knowledge and local practices

Reinventing cultural policy in Busan, South Korea

chapter |14 pages

‘Creative class' subversions

Art spaces in Beijing and Berlin

chapter |13 pages

Making cultures and places from below

New urban activism in Hong Kong

chapter |15 pages

The cultural grassroots and the authoritarian city

Spaces of contestation in Singapore

chapter |15 pages

Gentrification in the mill lands of Mumbai

Changing spatial practices and everyday life in working-class chawls

chapter |17 pages

Afterword

Creative city policy and social resistance