Asia in the Mix: Urban form and Global Mobilities - Hong Kong, Vancouver, Dubai

Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of being Global

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 182-204

  Lowry, Glen ^a   Mccann, Eugene ^b  

^a Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asia in the mix, urban form and global mobilities Hong Kong, Vancouver, Dubai; Asiancy, critical cultural perspective inter referencing of urban Asia; City's emergence as "extraterritorial" Asian city elites role, in "Vancouverization" of Asia; De reterritorialization, of False Creek urban form in Dubai Vancouverization, Asianization, and mobility; Exchange of ideas, experiences double edged brutality of yet another promised land (deal); False Creek, redevelopment in 1990s, ongoing "worlding" and "Asianization" of Vancouver; Hong Kong, Vancouver, and Dubai culture and citizenship; Skyline of downtown Vancouver, British Columbia reshaping, Vancouver's much vaunted "livability"; Vancouver's urban form, read in terms of cultural, economic, political flows, territorializations; Welcome to the Land of Light, cultural production in False Creek Vancouver, entry point

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866184732     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444346800.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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