Making sustainable creative/cultural space in Shanghai and Singapore.(Report): An article from: The Geographical Review
Book Details
Author(s)Lily Kong
PublisherAmerican Geographical Society
ISBN / ASINB001TIT1XE
ISBN-13978B001TIT1X0
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
This digital document is an article from The Geographical Review, published by American Geographical Society on January 1, 2009. The length of the article is 10234 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the author: Shanghai and Singapore are two economically vibrant Asian cities that have recently adopted creative/cultural economy strategies. In this article I examine new spatial expressions of cultural and economic interests in the two cities: state-vaunted cultural edifices and organically evolved cultural spaces. I discuss the simultaneous precariousness and sustainability of these spaces, focusing on Shanghai's Grand Theatre and Moganshan Lu and on Singapore's Esplanade--Theatres by the Bay and Wessex Estate. Their cultural sustainability is understood as their ability to support the development of indigenous content and local idioms in artistic work. Their social sustainability is examined in terms of the social inclusion and community bonds they engender; environmental sustainability refers to the articulation with the language of existing urban forms and the preservation of or improvements to the landscape. Although both Shanghai and Singapore demonstrate simultaneous precariousness and sustainability, Singapore's city state status places greater pressure on it to ensure sustainability than does Shanghai, within a much larger China in which Beijing serves as the cultural hearth while Shanghai remains essentially a commercial center. Keywords: China, creative and cultural spaces, Shanghai, Singapore, sustainability.
Citation Details
Title: Making sustainable creative/cultural space in Shanghai and Singapore.(Report)
Author: Lily Kong
Publication:The Geographical Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2009
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 99 Issue: 1 Page: 1(22)
Article Type: Report
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
From the author: Shanghai and Singapore are two economically vibrant Asian cities that have recently adopted creative/cultural economy strategies. In this article I examine new spatial expressions of cultural and economic interests in the two cities: state-vaunted cultural edifices and organically evolved cultural spaces. I discuss the simultaneous precariousness and sustainability of these spaces, focusing on Shanghai's Grand Theatre and Moganshan Lu and on Singapore's Esplanade--Theatres by the Bay and Wessex Estate. Their cultural sustainability is understood as their ability to support the development of indigenous content and local idioms in artistic work. Their social sustainability is examined in terms of the social inclusion and community bonds they engender; environmental sustainability refers to the articulation with the language of existing urban forms and the preservation of or improvements to the landscape. Although both Shanghai and Singapore demonstrate simultaneous precariousness and sustainability, Singapore's city state status places greater pressure on it to ensure sustainability than does Shanghai, within a much larger China in which Beijing serves as the cultural hearth while Shanghai remains essentially a commercial center. Keywords: China, creative and cultural spaces, Shanghai, Singapore, sustainability.
Citation Details
Title: Making sustainable creative/cultural space in Shanghai and Singapore.(Report)
Author: Lily Kong
Publication:The Geographical Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2009
Publisher: American Geographical Society
Volume: 99 Issue: 1 Page: 1(22)
Article Type: Report
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
More Books by Lily Kong
