Skateboarding and Urban Landscapes in Asia : Endless Spots

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Urban Asia: Endless Spots -- Escaping the California Gridlock -- (Re)Mapping Asia Through Spots -- Structure of the Book -- 2. Shredding the Urban Fabric -- Spots: Urban Landscapes Below the Knees -- Infrastructure's Adjacent Publics -- Splic...
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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Urban Asia: Endless Spots -- Escaping the California Gridlock -- (Re)Mapping Asia Through Spots -- Structure of the Book -- 2. Shredding the Urban Fabric -- Spots: Urban Landscapes Below the Knees -- Infrastructure's Adjacent Publics -- Splicing the Map -- Life on Video, Life Online -- Conclusion -- 3. Chasing the Concrete Dragon -- From Chinese Consumers to Consuming China -- Skateboarding at Shenzhen Speed -- Endless Spots, New Cartographies -- Communist Wonderland -- Conclusion -- 4. Spectacle Cities: The Luxury of Emptiness -- Central Asian Spectacles -- Emptying Dubai -- Dubai Unreal -- Spectacle and its Others -- Conclusion -- 5. For the Love of Soviet Planning -- Post-Soviet Urban Space from Below (The Knees) -- Independence Square (Tashkent) -- Ala-Too Square (Bishkek) -- The Outer Grid -- Haunted Spots -- Conclusion -- 6. Skateboarding's New Frontiers -- Iran: Revolutionary Modernity -- India: Rough Cut Modern -- Shredding the Architecture of Occupation -- Conclusion -- 7. Conclusion: Another 'Next China' -- Real-time Blues -- Endless Spots, Endless Search -- Bibliography -- Skate Videos and Media Files -- Published Sources -- Index -- List of Images -- Image 1.1 Jasper Dohrs in Chengdu, China in Preduce skateboard's Supermix -- Image 1.2 The Preduce 'Skate Park' Map of Bangkok -- Image 2.1 Waxed marble ledges outside Vincom Center in Ho Chi Minh City, 2018 -- Image 2.2 Navigating the crowd to skate the variation in the pavement. The Theatres by the Bay 'durian spikes' feature in the right-hand corner of the frame. Go Skate Day in Singapore, 2018 -- Image 3.1 Rodrigo Petersen's name on the famous Deng Xiaoping billboard in Shenzhen from Give Me My Money Chico -- Image 3.2 Rodrigo Petersen skating the famous wave ledge in Shenzhen in Give Me My Money Chico -- Image 3.3 Shanghai Spot Map. Ausführliche Beschreibung