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Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Prolegomenon; 1. Mapping Tourist Utopias / Tim Simpson; 2. The Zone Is on Vacation / Keller Easterling; Enclaves; 3. Instant Cities in the Jungle: Fantasies of Modernity for Whom? / Pál Nyíri; 4. After Utopia: Post-Colonial Macau and Post-Socialist Chinese Tourists / Tim Simpson; 5. Choreographing Singapore's Utopia by the Bay / Daniel P.S. Goh; 6. Cultural Utopia: Abu Dhabi's Island of Happiness and the Development of a Cultural Enclave / Yasser Elsheshtawy; Imaginaries. |
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7. Disney's Utopian Techno-Futures: Tomorrow's World That We Shall Build Today / Angela Ndalianis 8. Tourism and a Virtual Bulgaria / Benjamin Kidder Hodges; 9. Sublimity, Sovereignty, and Sophistry: The Trouble in Middle-earth / Margaret Werry; 10. Macau Utopics: A Photo Essay / Adam Lampton; Archipelagoes; 11. From Dubai to Mount Athos: Carving Islands of Fear and Hope / Veronica della Dora; About the Authors; Index; List of figures; Figure 2.1 Mexican maquiladora; Figure 2.2 Dubai zone aggregate; Figure 2.3 Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; Figure 2.4 Nova Cidade de Kilamba, Angola. |
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Figure 3.1 A row of condos in Boten Golden CityFigure 3.2 Abandoned shops at Boten; Figure 3.3 The Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone, seen from the Thai side of the Mekong; Figure 4.1 Tourists enjoying the controlled risk of the skywalk at the Macau Tower, which also offers the world's highest bungee jump; Figure 4.2 Tourists taking selfies on the steps of Macau's Ruins of St. Paul's; Figure 5.1 The choreography of utopia by the bay; Figure 5.2 The spectacular consumption of the Bay at a National Day Parade dress rehearsal, 2013; Figure 6.1A Saadiyat Island as it appeared in 2010. |
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Sea barrier walls have been placed for both the Guggenheim and the Louvre in preparation for constructionFigure 6.1B Saadiyat Island as it appears a 2014 satellite image; Figure 6.2 Scaled models of Saadiyat Island showing how both museums may appear once completed; Figure 6.3 Exhibit showing the completed Saadiyat Island development; Figure 6.4 The Louvre Abu Dhabi emerging from the desert with the luxurious St. Regis Resort in the foreground, January 2015; Figure 7.1 The 18-meter/59-feet-tall RX-78 Gundam mecha-robot at the entrance way of Aqua City, Odaiba. |
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Figure 7.2 Bel Geddes' Futurama 'Highways and Horizons' exhibit sponsored by General Motors for the New York World's Fair of 1939-1940Figure 7.3 Julian Krupa's vision of 'Cities of Tomorrow' in the August 1939 issue of Amazing Stories; Figure 7.4 Walt Disney presenting a map of EPCOT on the Wonderful World of Disney; Figure 7.5 View of the transportation center below the urban center of E.P.C.O.T. Design by Herbert Ryman, 1965; Figure 8.1 Tsar Samuel statue by Alexander Haitov, Sofia, Bulgaria, c. June 2015. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Tourism -- Social aspects.
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Tourism -- Social aspects. |
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Tourism -- Social aspects -- Southeast Asia.
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Southeast Asia. |
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Tourism -- Social aspects -- China -- Macau.
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China -- Macau. |
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Tourism -- Social aspects -- United Arab Emirates.
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United Arab Emirates. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Simpson, Tim (Associate professor), editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9789089648471 908964847X (OCoLC)944087557 |
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9789048527014 (electronic book) |
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9048527015 (electronic book) |
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9789089648471 |
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908964847X |
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