Shanghai Expo (eBook, ePUB)

An International Forum on the Future of Cities
Redaktion: Winter, Tim

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 2010 Shanghai hosted the largest, most spectacular and most expensive expo ever. Attracting a staggering 73 million visitors, and costing around US$45 billion dollars, Shanghai Expo broke the records in the history of world's fairs and universal expositions. The thirteen essays in Shanghai Expo, written by a team of interdisciplinary researchers, offer a uniquely detailed analysis of this globally significant event.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136237447
• Artikelnr.: 38255995

Autorenporträt

Tim Winter is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, Australia. He has published widely on heritage, development, modernity and tourism in Asia. He is currently working on a book on the history of world's fairs.

Inhaltsangabe

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