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.
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 Oconnor 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: Seouls 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
Xian, 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
June Wang is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies in the Department of Public Policy at City University of Hong Kong.
Tim Oakes is Professor of Geography and Director of the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
Yang Yang is a PhD candidate at the Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
