Sustainable Cultural Spaces in the Global City: Cultural Clusters in Heritage Sites, Hong Kong and Singapore

Bridge, Gary (editor) / Watson, Sophie (editor) / Kong, Lily (author)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 452-462

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

2011-02-25

11 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch40

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

global cities, and cultural spaces ‐ vibrancy and viability of spaces, vitality of global cities , cultural space, in global cities in Asia, Hong Kong and Singapore ‐ local places, turned to cultural use , cultural investment in urban and economic growth ‐ space for cultural use , Cattle Depot Artist Village, Hong Kong ‐ a cattle slaughterhouse, in former British colony , cultural clusters in heritage sites, Hong Kong and Singapore ‐ sustainable cultural spaces in global cities , culture‐led urban regeneration and cultural/creative economy ‐ cultural investment, valued because of urban and economic regeneration , Chinatown, Singapore's inscription of “Chineseness” ‐ roots in colonial urban planning , global cities, networked nodes ‐ multiple and intensive global flows of people, goods, services, ideas and images , challenges, confronting sustainability of Cattle Depot Artist Village ‐ lack of clarity of official responsibility, and broken chains of governance , urban spaces, economic and cultural flows ‐ characterizing global city