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Geographies of Abstraction, Urban Entrepreneurialism, and the Production of New Cultural Spaces: The West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong

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  • Mike Raco

    (Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, Gordon Street, London WC1H 0QB, England)

  • Katherine Gilliam

    (Department of Geography, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, England)

Abstract

During the 1990s and 2000s understandings of urban politics have become dominated by narratives of neoliberal urban entrepreneurialism. Considerations of, and even interest in, the diversities that exist in the specific politics that shape place developments have often been relegated to a matter of secondary interest when understood in relation to broader structural global forces. This is particularly significant as urban development projects have become increasingly bound-up with cultural programmes, many of which are embedded in the social relations of places, yet are often dismissed as subservient to global, fast-track development logics. This paper draws on a study of the politics surrounding the development of one of Asia's largest culture-led urban development projects, the West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong. It explores the complex relationships between contemporary development discourses and historically embedded postcolonial subjectivities and policy legacies. It uses the evidence to argue for more nuanced interpretations of change, and calls for a stronger focus on the concrete relations in and through which policy abstractions are formed.

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  • Mike Raco & Katherine Gilliam, 2012. "Geographies of Abstraction, Urban Entrepreneurialism, and the Production of New Cultural Spaces: The West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 44(6), pages 1425-1442, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:44:y:2012:i:6:p:1425-1442
    DOI: 10.1068/a44411
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    1. George C S Lin, 2014. "China's Landed Urbanization: Neoliberalizing Politics, Land Commodification, and Municipal Finance in the Growth of Metropolises," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 46(8), pages 1814-1835, August.
    2. Jiang, Ronghao & Lin, George C.S., 2021. "Placing China’s land marketization: The state, market, and the changing geography of land use in Chinese cities," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 103(C).
    3. Xiaobo Su, 2015. "Urban entrepreneurialism and the commodification of heritage in China," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 52(15), pages 2874-2889, November.
    4. Peter O’Brien & Andy Pike, 2019. "‘Deal or no deal?’ Governing urban infrastructure funding and financing in the UK City Deals," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(7), pages 1448-1476, May.
    5. Fox ZY Hu, 2015. "Industrial capitalisation and spatial transformation in Chinese cities: Strategic repositioning, state-owned enterprise capitalisation, and the reproduction of urban space in Beijing," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 52(15), pages 2799-2821, November.
    6. Donald McNeill, 2014. "Airports and territorial restructuring: The case of Hong Kong," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 51(14), pages 2996-3010, November.

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