Re-imagining the city: art, globalization and urban spaces

"This title provides current insights into the transformation of cities under the forces of globalization in relation to art and creative practices. It offers an interdisciplinary approach to the re-imagining of art in contemporary cities. It offers new perspectives on contemporary art production and consumption. "Re-Imagining the City" examines how contemporary processes of globalization are transforming cultural experience and production in urban spaces. It maps how cultural productions in art, architecture, and communications media are contributing to the reimagining of place and identity through events, artifacts, and attitudes. This book recasts how we understand cities - how knowledge can be formed, framed, and transferred through cultural production and how that knowledge is mediated through the construction of aesthetic meaning and value." -- Résumé de l'éditeur.

Foreword / Manfred B. Steger -- 1 Situating art, urban space and globalization / Elizabeth Grierson and Kristen Sharp -- Section I: Art and urban place -- 2 Art and culture: the global turn / Malcolm Miles -- 3 Catalysing our cities: architecture as the new alchemy for creative enterprise / Tom Barker -- 4 The Place of the urban: intersections between mobile and game cultures / Larissa Hjorth -- Section II: Transforming spaces and experiences of the city -- 5 Driving the sonic city / Kristen Sharp -- 6 'The Vacant Hotel': site-specific public art and the experience of driving the semi-privatized geographies of Melbourne's Eastlink Tollway /Ashley Perry -- 7 The Transient city: the city as urbaness / Maggie McCormick -- Section III: Exchange and transaction -- 8 'The Liquid Continent': globalization, urbanization, contemporary Pacific art and Australia / Pamela Zeplin -- 9 Abdul Abdullah: art, marginality and identity / Leslie Morgan -- 10 The Visible hand: an urban accord for outsourced craft / Kevin Murray -- Section IV: Interventions in public space -- 11 Border memorials: when the local rejects the global / SueAnne Ware -- 12 Encountering the elephant parade: intersections of a…