Re-Imagining Creative Cities in Twenty-First Century Asia

1. Introduction.- 2. Creative Cities, Creative Classes and the Global Modern.- 3. Global City as place branding strategy: the case of Bonifacio Global City.- 4. Creative Cities, Technological Utopianism and Cultural Retrofitting.- 5. Rethinking Creative Cities?: UNESCO, Sustainability, and Making Urban Cultures.- 6. 'Crisis of Values' in Rhetorical Architecture: Creative Cities Discourse and the Urban Landscapes of the Philippines.- 7. From Foreign Community to Creative Town?: Creativity, Contestation in Itaewon, Seoul.- 8. Whose cultural memory? Disruptive tactics by the creative collectives in George Town, Malaysia.- 9. Tainan City as a case study of culture-led community supported transformation of a historical city.- 10. Making of the new Digital Media City in Seoul.- 11. The role of an urban festival: case study of the international film festival in Pingyao.- 12. 'Behind the scenes' of Mumbai's Bollywood.- 13. Cool Japan, Creative Industries and Diversity.- 14. Creative Seoul - a lesson for Asian creative cities.- 15. Re-imaging the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area as a cluster of Creative Cities.- 16. Creative City Policy in second-tier cities. The Case of Chiang Mai, Thailand.- 17. City of Music - Post Conflict New Branding of the City of Ambon.- 18. Creative Cities and Sustainable development: a framework.- 19. Creative Bandung: Interview with Tita Larasati.- 20. Creative Cities in Cambodia: an impossible idea?.- 21. UNESCO and Mongolian Cultural Policy.