Shanghai Expo An International Forum on the Future of Cities 1st Edition by Tim Winter ISBN 1136237453 9781136237454

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ISBN 10: 1136237453 
ISBN 13: 9781136237454
Author: Tim Winter

In 2010 Shanghai hosted the largest, most spectacular and most expensive expo ever. Attracting a staggering 73 million visitors, and costing around US$45 billion dollars, Shanghai Expo broke the records in the history of world’s fairs and universal expositions. With more than half of the world’s population now living in cities, many of which face uncertain futures, this mega event confronted some of the key challenges facing humanity in the 21st Century, with its theme Better City, Better Life. Just two years after the Beijing Olympics, Shanghai Expo encapsulated a moment in history defined by China’s rise as a global superpower, and by the multiple challenges associated with developing more sustainable cities. The thirteen essays here, written by a team of interdisciplinary researchers, offer a uniquely detailed analysis of this globally significant event. Chapters examine displays of futurity and utopia, the limitations of inter-cultural dialogue, and the ways in which this mega-event reflected its geo-political and cultural moment. Shanghai Expo also concentrates on the interplay between declarations towards urban sustainability, and the recent economic, demographic and socio-political trajectories of Shanghai and China more broadly. It will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, history, politics, international relations, economics, Asian studies, China studies, sustainability, and urban studies.

Shanghai Expo An International Forum on the Future of Cities 1st Table of contents:

1 A forum on the futures of cities
Markers in history
Approaching Expo
Notes
Part I In context
2 Shanghai 2010, in a tradition of mega-events, nation-building and modernity
Imperial nations
For the public
Thinking space
Progress
China on display
Notes
3 I Wish I Knew: Comprehending China’s cultural reform through Shanghai Expo
Shanghai Expo: cultural needs of an economic powerhouse
When the world is in China, where is China in the world?
From ‘City’ to ‘Better City’: what else is China lacking?
Conclusion
4 ‘Better City, Better Life’?: Envisioning a sustainable Shanghai through the Expo
Introduction: tracing two paths to an urban future
Shanghai and urban development
Reform and the re-globalisation of Shanghai
Shanghai, global city?
Better City, Better Life?
Sustainable Shanghai
Shanghai and the Expo
Shanghai, makes life better?
Notes
5 On Expo 2010’s hinterlands,‘extrastatecraft’ and migrantworkers
Extraterritorial precedents
Guijing migrant village
Conclusion
6 The ‘Economic Olympics’?: Shanghai 2010 after Beijing 2008
East Asia on show1
Mega-event economics: images, legacies and flexible balance sheets
Olympics versus/as expo
Expo, sport, tourism and spectacle
Notes
Part II Encounter
7 On display: The state of the world
From West to East
World versus nation
The downside of progress
Exit to Utopia?
Better nation, better life?
Conclusion
Notes
8 Ordinary city, ordinary life: Off the expo map
Spaces of inclusion
Expo and the ordinary city
The low-carbon expo: representing the city and its problems
Sideshow: exhibiting the ordinary city
Conclusion
Notes
9 Cultural exotica: From the colonial to global in world’s fairs
Imperial connections
Vestigial cultures
Heritage tourism colonialities
Conclusion
Notes
10 Culture, nation and technology: Immersive media and the Saudi Arabia pavilion
Historical context of immersive media
The media screens at Shanghai Expo 2010
Saudi Arabia and Canada: case studies of the use of an immersive-media facility
Non-specialist audiences: the visitor as consumer
National pavilions as promotional culture: innovations of national and corporate cultures
Conclusion: hybrids of media/hybrids of modernity
Notes
11 Tracing the future: Child’s play and the free fall of imagination
Educating the future
Open happiness
Sowing the future
12 Video assemblages of Shanghai
Capturing magnitude
The video-essay form: making a video essay at the Shanghai Expo
Conclusion
Note
13 Afterword
Notes

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