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Author Huang, Tsung-yi Michelle

Title Walking between slums and skyscrapers : illusions of open space in Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Shanghai / Tsung-Yi Michelle Huang
Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 171 pages) : illustrations
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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
Summary "This 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. Globalization has given rise to accessible catch-phrases such as the 'global village' and 'this is a small world'. In each part of the book the author juxtaposes a 'social' account of the city's urban space as it has been reshaped by the process of globalization with a 'private' account of the urban landscape as experienced by its walkers (as represented in the films of Wong Kar-wai and Shinya Tsukamoto and the novels of Wang Anyi). Rather than rest here, the author wishes to show that for many of the inhabitants of the new global city, the 'shrinking world' phenomenon is deeply literal : the 'lived' space of everyday life is shrinking to make room for rezoning, construction of new infrastructures, and space modification - all in the name of urban development"--Back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-145) and index
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In HKU Press digital editions
Subject 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
City planning.
Cities and towns -- China -- Shanghai -- Growth
City and town life -- China -- Shanghai
Cities and towns -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Growth
City and town life -- Japan -- Tokyo
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning.
City and town life
Cities and towns -- Growth
City planning
Globalization -- Social aspects
Open spaces -- Social aspects
Skyscrapers
Slums
China -- Hong Kong
China -- Shanghai
Japan -- Tokyo
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008555469
ISBN 9789882203068
988220306X