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1 online resource (255 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Architecture Series |
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Routledge research in architecture.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword: the biennale complex -- Reference list -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Introduction: Events and the city -- Staging the 'Chinese Dream' -- Events and the city: 'urban' biennials -- Decoding the Biennale: a methodological challenge -- Assemblages, worlding practices and spatial narratives -- 2005-2019 as a timeframe -- The structure of the book -- Notes -- Reference list -- 1. Framing the Shenzhen Biennale -- A new urban showcase -- Investigating the Zone |
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A trans-scalar platform -- Global dimension: feeding the 'world-class' narrative -- Acquiring growing relevance -- National affirmation: from cultural 'desert' to 'oasis' -- Metamorphosis of the 'city without history' -- Design as culture -- Regional scale: cross-border relations and rivalry -- Propelling the Bay -- The Biennale narration -- Notes -- Reference list -- 2. The Biennale as an urban device -- Shaping a cultural city -- Re-discovering and transforming spaces -- Post-industrial spaces and state-owned enterprises -- Urban villages -- Central Business District -- The 'Biennale Device' |
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Spatial practices and spatial narratives -- The operative framework -- The 'Biennale City' -- Notes -- Reference list -- 3. Post-industrial legacy -- OCT-LOFT Living -- Regeneration and creativity: an intersection -- Activation and consolidation of a creative park -- Spectacular urban spaces: culture, consumption and tourism -- Re-pioneering Shekou: Value Factory -- Heritage, memory and value in the 'City without history' -- Negotiating the transformation -- Restoring the Factory -- The role of the China Merchants Group -- A suspended legacy: 'value' for whom? -- DaCheng Flour Factory |
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Re-living DaCheng -- Between catalyst and side effect -- Symbolic and real (estate) capital: an intertwining -- Notes -- Chapter 3. Reference List -- 4. Urban villages -- Growing differences in Nantou Old Town -- Nantou Old Town -- Curating Nantou: exhibition as a 'practice' -- Coexistence (and contradictions) on display -- A new Nantou between social and corporate interests -- Re-imagining Dameisha -- An aspirational tourist site -- Displaying daily life in Dameisha -- Vanke's vision for 'a Biennale that never ends' -- Represented spaces and their discontents -- Taming the informal city -- Notes |
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Reference list -- 5. The Central Business District -- Regulatory symbolism and aspirational counter-narratives -- The Shenzhen Civic Square -- Contesting the Square -- Symbolic practices and physical spaces -- The Square on stage (again) -- How a train station became political -- Towards Urban Interactions -- The High-Speed Railway Station as a strategic urban element -- The Biennale as 'interruption' -- From connected to contested space -- Between subversion and regulation -- Notes -- Chapter 5. Reference List -- Conclusion: Events as city -- The Biennale as a network -- From ideal .. |
| Summary |
Curated in China: Manipulating the City through the Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture 2005-2019 provides an in-depth observation of an architecture and urbanism exhibition with transformative objectives |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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... to hyper-real spaces: events as city |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003836872 |
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1003836879 |
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