Walking between Slums and Skyscrapers: Illusions of Open Space in Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Shanghai

Table of contents

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• Walking between Slums and Skyscrapers i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Acknowledgements ix
• Introduction - Walking in the Global City: Whose Open Space Is It? 1
• Part One Hong Kong Blue - Where Have All the Flaneurs Gone? Walking in between Eternal Dual Compression 13
• 1 - Hong Kong 15
• 2 - Chungking Express 31
• 3 - between Representations of Space and Representational Spaces 49
• Part Two between Global Flows and Carnal Flows 57
• 4 - Mimesis 63
• 5 - from Mimesis to Mimicry 77
• Part Three Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall 99
• 6 - [Build It and They Will Come] 103
• 7 - from Alley Houses to High-Rises 111
• 8 - Sleeping Beauty Waking Up to a New World of Capital 119

• Walking between Slums and Skyscrapers i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Acknowledgements ix
• Introduction - Walking in the Global City: Whose Open Space Is It? 1
• Part One Hong Kong Blue - Where Have All the Flaneurs Gone? Walking in between Eternal Dual Compression 13
• 1 - Hong Kong 15
• 2 - Chungking Express 31
• 3 - between Representations of Space and Representational Spaces 49
• Part Two between Global Flows and Carnal Flows 57
• 4 - Mimesis 63
• 5 - from Mimesis to Mimicry 77
• Part Three Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall 99
• 6 - [Build It and They Will Come] 103
• 7 - from Alley Houses to High-Rises 111
• 8 - Sleeping Beauty Waking Up to a New World of Capital 119
• Coda 137
• Bibliography 139
• Notes 147
• Index 167