Table of Contents

Foreword – Manfred B. Steger
Chapter 1: Situating Art, Urban Space and Globalization – Elizabeth Grierson and Kristen Sharp
Section I: Art and Urban Place
Chapter 2: Art and Culture: The global turn – Malcolm Miles
Chapter 3: Catalysing our Cities: Architecture as the new alchemy for creative enterprise – Tom Barker
Chapter 4: The Place of the Urban: Intersections between mobile and game cultures – Larissa Hjorth
Section II: Transforming Spaces and Experiences of the City
Chapter 5: Driving the Sonic City – Kristen Sharp
Chapter 6: ‘The Vacant Hotel’: Site-specific public art and the experience of driving the semi-privatized geographies of Melbourne’s EastLink Tollway – Ashley Perry
Chapter 7: The Transient City: The city as urbaness – Maggie McCormick
Section III: Exchange and Transaction
Chapter 8: ‘The Liquid Continent’: Globalization, urbanization, contemporary Pacific art and Australia – Pamela Zeplin
Chapter 9: Abdul Abdullah: Art, marginality and identity – Leslie Morgan
Chapter 10: The Visible Hand: An urban accord for outsourced craft – Kevin Murray Section IV: Interventions in Public Space
Chapter 11: Border Memorials: When the local rejects the global – SueAnne Ware
Chapter 12: Encountering the Elephant Parade: Intersections of aesthetics, ecology and economy – Elizabeth Grierson
Chapter 13: Re-imagining Dutch Urban Life: The Blue House in Amsterdam – Zara Stanhope
Conclusion
Chapter 14: Cities as Limitless Spaces of Simultaneity and Paradox – Chris Hudson

About the Author

Elizabeth Grierson is professor of art and philosophy and head of the School of Art at the Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. Kristen Sharp is a researcher, lecturer, and coordinator of art history and theory in the School of Art at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.