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Index Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 8 AD New Urban China, 9, 12 AdXplorer, digital marketing firm, 63 aging society, 174, 176–7 “Airtropolis”, 46 Akira, Asada, 24 “alpha world city”, 30n27 “alternative” modernity, 25, 28 Another Tokyo, 160, 167 anti-earthquake measures, 175, 178–9, 181, 188n18 Aoki, Hitoshi, 188n13 Arata, Isozaki, 24–5 “architectural resistance”, xxii architecture, see also Chinese architecture and Euro-American architecture and art, 22, 25, 28, 143, 146 and cultural changes, xiv as cultural resource, 74 as discipline, xv, 147 generic, 9, 15 heritage, 82 hybrid, 34–6 new types of, 34 paradigm in, xxii quantifiable aspects of, 141 radical, xiv Armstrong, Warwick, xvi art district, 92–5, 98–100, 105, 108, 109n25, 110n41, 110n44 “art factories”, xx, 90–108, 108n1, 108n3 art-led conservation, 91 “arts led strategies”, 91 “art villages”, 92 ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), 26, 43 ASEAN-4, xvi Ash, Timothy Garton, 30n22 Asia as global entities, xvi–xvii birth rates, 173 211 Index development in, xvi urban population, xvi Asian Alterity, 9 Asian chaos, xxii “Asian democracy”, 25 Asian Development Bank, 92 Asian financial crisis, 27 Asian identity, xix, xxi– xxiii “Asia-ness”, xix–xx, xxvi “Asian space”, xviii, 20, 155 “Asian urban design”, 20 “Asian values”, 26 “Attap Dweller’s Association”, 70n16 Avant-Garde Metabolist Movement, 10 Bangkok architectural scale, 79–80 urban precincts, 81–2, 85 bankrupt ideologies, 5 Barthes, Roland, 167 “Bastard Ideology”, 5 BBC, 59, 66 Beijing Olympics, 6, 13, 30n22 Beijing-Tianjin Corridor, 4–5 Berman, Marshall, 23 Bhabha, Homi K., 23 Binjiang Creative Park, xx, 97–8, 108 Bizart Art Center, 93 Blade Runner, 5, 16n6 Boat Quay, 82 Boontharm, Davisi, xx Borden, Ian, xiv Bouman, Ole, 11 Bridge 8, 96, 100–1, 103–5 rental, 110n41 “Bridge of Creativity”, 104 Buck, David N., xiii Bugis Junction, 82 Bukit Ban Kee, 153 Bukit Ho Swee, 153 212 Index Campanella, Tom, 11 Canadian Tourist Board, 59–60 Capitaland, 82 capitalism, 22, 26, 29n18, 30n22, 86 Cao Fei, 11 carbon dioxide emissions, 173, 183, 185–6 Carter, Paul, 146 Castells, Manuel, xxii CBD City, 13 CCIA (Created in China Industrial Alliance), 95, 109n28 Cervero, Robert, 188n16 Chang’ning District Government, 96 Chang Yung Ho, 7 Chatuchak Weekend Market, 79–82, 86 Chee, Lilian, xxii Chen Xiangming, 9 Cheo Chai-Hiang, 144, 156n16 China, see also Shanghai art factories, 91, 108n1 art-led conservation, 91 as investor, 6, 16n15 cities in, 4 city revenues, 16n19 “closed door” policy, 12 economic reforms, 4 energy consumption, 10 one-child policy, 173 “open door” policy, 4, 12, 89, 91 post-industrial period, 10 urban characteristics, 11 urban development in, 3–12 urban model in, 6 “China’s Internationalisation Springboard”, 70n9 “China Contemporary”, 7 China Creative Industry Research Center, 99 “China Design Now”, 7 China Fashion Design Association, 96 “China’s New Revolution”, 9 Chinatown, 53–4, 58, 63, 65, 67–8, 82–3 Chinatown Historic District, 54–5 Chinese architecture, 7, 9, 94, see also architecture and Euro-American architecture “Chinese characteristics”, 4, 12 “Chinese Dragon”, 6 “Chinese Dream”, 6 Chinese Dream, The, 7 Chinese funerals, 128–9 “Chinese” identity, 8 “Chinese Miracle”, 7 “Chinese style cities”, 7 Chinese urban development model, definition, 9 Chinese Utopia, 7, 16n22 Ching Chor Leng, Twardzik, 144 Chongqing metropolitan area, 4 Chrétien, Jean, 58 Chulalongkorn University, 81 Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine de Paris, 7 “Cities from Zero”, 6 city for crisis, xiv “city guerrillas”, 24 City Planning Act, 33 Clarke Quay, 82 class society, 115 COED (City Of Exacerbated Differences), 5 coffeeshop, see kopitiam “coffeeshop talk”, 120–1 Cohen, A.P., 117 cold war, 26 colonialism, xxi–xxii, 20, 25, 34 Columbia University, 8, 16n25 commercialism, 99, 176 commodification, 144 Common Property and Open Space Rules, 128 communism, xxii, 34 compact city, 174–5, 183, 187n9, 188n10, 188n16 “compact metropolis”, 175 Concrete Dragon, The, 11 Conference of the Parties (COP), 187n7 Confucian conservatism, 34 consumare, 74 consumere, 74 consumerism, xxiv, xxvi, 74, 175 “contemporary Asian art”, xxiii, 19 “contemporary Asian identity”, xviii “Contemporary Chinese City”, 7 “Contemporary Urban China”, 4 cosmopolis, xiv “cosmopolitans”, 115 “Created in China”, 15 Created in China Industrial Alliance, see CCIA “creative class”, 81, 83, 85 “creative clusters”, 90, 99, 109n20 “creative milieu”, 75 “Creative Parks”, 99 creative urbanism, 85, 87 Cronin, James, 26 Cube (design firm), 63 cultural economy, xxiii “cultural quarters”, 90 cultural sustainability, 168–9 cyber-city, xiv cyberspace, xxiii Cyworld (social network site), 37–8 Damenlou Hotel, 61, 67 decentralization...

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