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Mall City : Hong Kong's Dreamworlds of Consumption / ed. by Stefan Al.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) : approx. 150 color, 50 b&w illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780824855444
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- INTRODUCTION Mall City: Hong Kong's Dreamworlds of Consumption -- Part 1: ESSAYS -- 1. Predisposed towards Mall Cities -- Barrie Shelton 2. A Short History of Hong Kong Malls and Towers -- 3. The Rise of Tall Podia and Vertical Malls -- 4. Restructuring Urban Space: The Mall in Mixed-Use Developments -- 5. Mall Cities in Hong Kong: Chungking Mansions -- 6. Narrating the Mall City -- 7. It Makes a Village -- Part 2: CATALOG -- The Prescience of Malls: A GLIMPSE INSIDE OF HONG KONG'S UNIQUE "PUBLIC" SPACES -- Footprints -- Cross-sections -- 312 Malls in Hong Kong -- 17 Mall City Case Studies -- F.A.R. (Floor Area Ratio) -- Blank Wall Ratio -- Type 1: Residential / Commercial -- Type 2: Mall / Residential -- Type 3 : Mall / Office -- Type 4 : Hybrid -- CREDITS
Summary: Hong Kong is the twenty-first-century paradigmatic capital of consumerism. Of all places, it has the densest and tallest concentration of malls, reaching tens of stories. Hong Kong's malls are also the most visited, sandwiched between subways and skyscrapers. These mall complexes have become cities in and of themselves, accommodating tens of thousands of people who live, work, and play within a single structure. Mall City features Hong Kong as a unique rendering of an advanced consumer society. Retail space has come a long way since the nineteenth-century covered passages of Paris, which once awed the bourgeoisie with glass roofs and gaslights. It has morphed from the arcade to the department store, and from the mall into the "mall city"-where "expresscalators" crisscross mesmerizing atriums. Highlighting the effects of this development in Hong Kong, this book raises questions about architecture, city planning, culture, and urban life.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- INTRODUCTION Mall City: Hong Kong's Dreamworlds of Consumption -- Part 1: ESSAYS -- 1. Predisposed towards Mall Cities -- Barrie Shelton 2. A Short History of Hong Kong Malls and Towers -- 3. The Rise of Tall Podia and Vertical Malls -- 4. Restructuring Urban Space: The Mall in Mixed-Use Developments -- 5. Mall Cities in Hong Kong: Chungking Mansions -- 6. Narrating the Mall City -- 7. It Makes a Village -- Part 2: CATALOG -- The Prescience of Malls: A GLIMPSE INSIDE OF HONG KONG'S UNIQUE "PUBLIC" SPACES -- Footprints -- Cross-sections -- 312 Malls in Hong Kong -- 17 Mall City Case Studies -- F.A.R. (Floor Area Ratio) -- Blank Wall Ratio -- Type 1: Residential / Commercial -- Type 2: Mall / Residential -- Type 3 : Mall / Office -- Type 4 : Hybrid -- CREDITS

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Hong Kong is the twenty-first-century paradigmatic capital of consumerism. Of all places, it has the densest and tallest concentration of malls, reaching tens of stories. Hong Kong's malls are also the most visited, sandwiched between subways and skyscrapers. These mall complexes have become cities in and of themselves, accommodating tens of thousands of people who live, work, and play within a single structure. Mall City features Hong Kong as a unique rendering of an advanced consumer society. Retail space has come a long way since the nineteenth-century covered passages of Paris, which once awed the bourgeoisie with glass roofs and gaslights. It has morphed from the arcade to the department store, and from the mall into the "mall city"-where "expresscalators" crisscross mesmerizing atriums. Highlighting the effects of this development in Hong Kong, this book raises questions about architecture, city planning, culture, and urban life.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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