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