Shanghai Expo : An International Forum on the Future of Cities

ISBN-13: 9780415524629 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 240 str.

Tim Winter

Opis

In 2010 Shanghai hosted the largest, most spectacular and most expensive expo ever. The 13 essays here, written by a team of interdisciplinary researchers, offer a uniquely detailed analysis of this globally significant event.

Spis treści

1. A Forum on the Futures of Cities  Part One: In Context  2. Shanghai 2010, in a Tradition of Mega Events, Nation-building and Modernity  3. I Wish I Knew: Comprehending China’s Cultural Reform  4. Better City, Better Life? Visioning a Sustainable Shanghai  5. On Expo’s Hinterlands, Extrastatecraft and Migrant Workers  6. The ‘Economic Olympics’? Shanghai 2010 after Beijing 2008  Part Two: Encounter  7. On Display: The State of the World  8. Ordinary City, Ordinary Life: Off the Expo Map  9. Cultural Exotica: From the Colonial to Global in World’s Fairs  10. Culture, Nation and Technology: Immersive Media and the Saudi Arabia Pavilion  11. Tracing the Future: Child’s play and the Free Fall of Imagination  12. Video Assemblages of Shanghai  13. Afterword.  Bibliography.  Index

O autorze

Tim Winter is is a Professor in the School of Social Sciences at The University of Western Australia. He has published widely on heritage, development, modernity and tourism in Asia.