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12. Beside Downtown: Global Chinatowns
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- Introduction: Globalizing Downtown 1
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PART I. Imagination
- 1. Toward a Genealogy of Downtowns 29
- 2. From Peking to Beijing: Production of Centrality in the Global Age 48
- 3. Simulations of Barcelona: Urban Projects in Port Spaces (1981– 2002) 65
- 4. Urbanist Ideology and the Production of Space in the United Arab Emirates: An Anthropological Critique 90
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PART II. Consumption
- 5. Reaching for Dubai: Nashville Dreams of a Twenty- First- Century Skyline 113
- 6. From National Utopia to Elite Enclave: “Economic Realities” and Resistance in the Reconstruction of Beirut 136
- 7. When the Film Festival Comes to (Down)Town: Transnational Circuits, Tourism, and the Urban Economy of Images 160
- 8. The Future of the Past: World Heritage, National Identity, and Urban Centrality in Late Socialist Cuba 186
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PART III. Conflict
- 9. Utopia/Dystopia: Art and Downtown Development in Los Angeles 209
- 10. “Slum- Free Mumbai” and Other Entrepreneurial Strategies in the Making of Mumbai’s Global Downtown 234
- 11. Downtown as Brand, Downtown as Land: Urban Elites and Neoliberal Development in Contemporary New York City 253
- 12. Beside Downtown: Global Chinatowns 273
- NOTES 297
- Bibliography 311
- Contributors 345
- Index 349
- Acknowledgments 359
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- Introduction: Globalizing Downtown 1
-
PART I. Imagination
- 1. Toward a Genealogy of Downtowns 29
- 2. From Peking to Beijing: Production of Centrality in the Global Age 48
- 3. Simulations of Barcelona: Urban Projects in Port Spaces (1981– 2002) 65
- 4. Urbanist Ideology and the Production of Space in the United Arab Emirates: An Anthropological Critique 90
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PART II. Consumption
- 5. Reaching for Dubai: Nashville Dreams of a Twenty- First- Century Skyline 113
- 6. From National Utopia to Elite Enclave: “Economic Realities” and Resistance in the Reconstruction of Beirut 136
- 7. When the Film Festival Comes to (Down)Town: Transnational Circuits, Tourism, and the Urban Economy of Images 160
- 8. The Future of the Past: World Heritage, National Identity, and Urban Centrality in Late Socialist Cuba 186
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PART III. Conflict
- 9. Utopia/Dystopia: Art and Downtown Development in Los Angeles 209
- 10. “Slum- Free Mumbai” and Other Entrepreneurial Strategies in the Making of Mumbai’s Global Downtown 234
- 11. Downtown as Brand, Downtown as Land: Urban Elites and Neoliberal Development in Contemporary New York City 253
- 12. Beside Downtown: Global Chinatowns 273
- NOTES 297
- Bibliography 311
- Contributors 345
- Index 349
- Acknowledgments 359