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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459663203321

Autore

Huang Tsung-yi Michelle

Titolo

Walking between slums and skyscrapers [[electronic resource] ] : illusions of open space in Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Shanghai / / Tsung-Yi Michelle Huang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hong Kong, : Hong Kong University Press, c2004

ISBN

1-282-70733-7

9786612707339

988-220-306-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Disciplina

307.1216095

307.76095

Soggetti

City planning - China - Hong Kong

City planning - Japan - Tokyo

City planning - China - Shanghai

Open spaces - Social aspects - China - Hong Kong

Open spaces - Social aspects - Japan - Tokyo

Open spaces - Social aspects - China - Shanghai

Slums - China - Hong Kong

Slums - Japan - Tokyo

Slums - China - Shanghai

Skyscrapers - China - Hong Kong

Skyscrapers - Japan - Tokyo

Skyscrapers - China - Shanghai

Globalization - Social aspects - China - Hong Kong

Globalization - Social aspects - Japan - Tokyo

Globalization - Social aspects - China - Shanghai

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-145) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknoloedgements; Introduction; PART ONE Hong Kong Blue: Where Have All the Flaneurs Gone? Walking in Between EternalDual



Compression; 1 Hong Kong: A Nodal Point of Dual Compression From British Empire Colony to Disney Kingdom Outpost; 2 Chungking Express: Walking With a Map of Desire in the Mirag e of the Global City; 3 Between Representations of Space and Representational Spaces: Flaneurie With the Camera's Eye; Part Two Bettwaso Gtobal Flows aod Carnal Fiows: Walking in Tokyo; 4 Mimesis: The Violence of Space; 5 From Mimesis to Mimicry: Memory, Subjectivity, and Space

PART THREE: Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall: Walking in Shanghai, A Global City in the M aking6 ""Build It and They Will Come"": Transformation of Pudong into a Copy of the Global City; 7 From Alley Houses to High-rises: What Happene d to the Lived Space?; 8 Sleeping Beauty Waking Up to a New World of Capital: Wang Anyi's Shanghai Stories; Coda; Bibliography; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The book is concerned with the effects of globalization on living space (i.e. the space of everyday life), focusing specifically on East Asian metropolises, such as Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Shanghai.