Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities ─ Creating New Urban Landscapes in Asia

Kong, Chia-ho, and Tsu-Lung examine the ambitions and projects relating to arts, culture, and creative production undertaken in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Singapore. They analyze the similarities and differences in the strategies and their relative successes and failures in order to contribute to the literature on global cities, urban imaging, urban boosterism, urban rejuvenation, cultural mega-projects, and cultural and creative businesses and clusters. Among the topics are discourse and reality in the construction of Beijing's new National Grand Theatre, Hong Kong's dilemmas and the changing fates of West Kowloon cultural district, the absent new cultural monument in Taipei, remaking Shanghai's old industrial spaces, and converting old schools to new artistic and aesthetic use in Singapore. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Lily Kong, Provost and Lee Kong Chian Professor of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Ching Chia-ho and Chou Tsu-Lung, National Taipei University, Taiwan