Sustainable Cultural Spaces in the Global City: Cultural Clusters in Heritage Sites, Hong Kong and Singapore

The New Blackwell Companion to the City

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 452-462

  Kong, Lily ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong a cattle slaughterhouse, in former British colony; Challenges, confronting sustainability of Cattle Depot Artist Village lack of clarity of official responsibility, and broken chains of governance; Chinatown, Singapore's inscription of "Chineseness" roots in colonial urban planning; Cultural clusters in heritage sites, Hong Kong and Singapore sustainable cultural spaces in global cities; Cultural investment in urban and economic growth space for cultural use; Cultural space, in global cities in Asia, Hong Kong and Singapore local places, turned to cultural use; Culture led urban regeneration and cultural creative economy cultural investment, valued because of urban and economic regeneration; Global cities, and cultural spaces vibrancy and viability of spaces, vitality of global cities; Global cities, networked nodes multiple and intensive global flows of people, goods, services, ideas and images; Urban spaces, economic and cultural flows characterizing global city

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860451499     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395105.ch40     Document Type: Chapter

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