TY  - BOOK
AU  - Huang, Tsung-yi Michelle
TI  - Walking between slums and skyscrapers : illusions of open space in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Shanghai
SN  - 9622096360
U1  - 307.3364 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Hong Kong
PB  - Hong Kong Uni. Press
N1  - CONTENTS Acknowledgements  ix Introduction 1 Walking in the Global City: Whose Open Space Is It? PART ONE Hong Kong Blue: Where Have All the Flaneurs Gone?  13 Walking in Between Eternal Dual Compression Chapter 1 Hong Kong: A Nodal Point of Dual Compression  15 From British Empire Colony to Disney Kingdom Outpost Disneyfication of the City: The Global Compression Not Just the Tourists: Local Compression and Public Housing in Hong Kong Chapter 2 Chungking Express: Walking With a Map of Desire in the  31 Mirage of the Global City Space of Fantasy/Map of Desire   Lost in a Big City: Global Space as a Mirage Femme Fatale or Disoriented Dupe? The Walker With a Blonde Wig and a Wrong Map Multilingual as Global: The Talking Flaneur Looking for a Return Gaze Airport/Global Space/Women: The Self-pity Flaneur California Dreaming in Hong Kong: The Female Flaneur as a Mirror Chapter 3 Between Representations of Space and Representational Spaces:  49 Flaneuric With the Camera's Eye Shock Defense and the Director-Flaneur's Authentic Map of Hong Kong Shock Defense and Flaneur's Resistance to Modernization PART Two Between Global Flows and Carnal Flows: Walking in Tokyo  57 Chapter 4 Mimesis: The Violence of Space  63 Abstract Space Par Excellence: Global/Fragmentary Space of Tokyo Global City Tokyo: An Official Story All the Glittering Buildings: You Are What You See Chapter 5 From Mimesis to Mimicry: Memory, Subjectivity, and Space  77 Salaryman or Iron Man? Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer Of a Man and a Building: Tokyo Fist Walking as a Salaryman: What's Wrong With It?   PART THREE   Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall: Walking in Shanghai, a Global City  99 in the Making   Chapter 6 Build it and They will Come: Transformation of Pudong Into a  103 Copy of the Global City Global City Formation: What Can Go Wrong? Chapter 7 From Alley Houses to High-rises: What Happened to the Lived Space?111 Mirror and Mirage: Whose Global City Is It? Chapter 8 Sleeping Beauty Waking up to a New World of Capital:  119 Wang Anyi's Shanghai Stories Mirage of Old Shanghai: Meitou and The Song of Unending Sorrow Looking for Shanghai: Meandering on Foot in a Labyrinthian City of Mirrors Coda  137 Bibliography139 Notes147 Index  167
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