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Title	Creative Cities, Technological Utopianism And Cultural Retrofitting
ID_Doc	16522
Authors	Gu X.
Year	2020
Published	Re-Imagining Creative Cities in Twenty-First Century Asia
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46291-8_4
Abstract	This chapter reviews academic literature and policies on ‘creative cities’ with a particular emphasis on the development of digital and media infrastructures in making such cities. It tries to understand what lies behind the evolution of the creative cities discourse in developing Asia. I argue that creative cities approach, focusing on global media corporations and smart technologies, is aiding westernised neoliberal governance rhetoric whilst sidestepping some of the core concern of progressive social reforms lies at the core of ‘creative cities’ proposal when it first appeared in post-industrial cities in the West. The emergence of this new breed of smart cities and intelligent cities in many East Asia nations (China in particular) are increasingly looking beyond culture as promises for a soft landing of a transitional national economy, but the soft lining of a pervasive cybernetic urban environments. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.
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