Acknowledgements

Foreword

Manfred B. Steger

1. Situating Art, Urban Space and Globalization

Elizabeth Grierson and Kristen Sharp

Section I: Art and Urban Place

2. Art and Culture: The global turn

Malcolm Miles
 

3. Catalysing our Cities: Architecture as the new alchemy for creative enterprise

Tom Barker
 

4. The Place of the Urban: Intersections between mobile and game cultures

Larissa Hjorth
 

Section II: Transforming Spaces and Experiences of the City

5.  Driving the Sonic City

Kristen Sharp

6. ‘The Vacant Hotel’: Site-specific public art and the experience of driving the semi-privatized geographies of Melbourne’s Eastlink Tollway

Ashley Perry
 

7. The Transient City: The city as urbaness

Maggie McCormick
 

Section III: Exchange and Transaction

8. ‘The Liquid Continent’: Globalization, urbanization, contemporary Pacific art and Australia

Pamela Zeplin

9. Abdul Abdullah: Art, marginality and identity

Leslie Morgan
 

10. The Visible Hand: An urban accord for outsourced craft

Kevin Murray

Section IV: Interventions in Public Space

11. Border Memorials: When the local rejects the global

SueAnne Ware

12. Encountering the Elephant Parade: Intersections of aesthetics, ecology and economy

Elizabeth Grierson

13. Re-imagining Dutch Urban Life: The Blue House in Amsterdam

Zara Stanhope

Conclusion

14. Cities as Limitless Spaces of Simultaneity and Paradox

Chris Hudson

Author Bionotes

Index