Skateboarding and urban landscapes in Asia : endless spots / Duncan McDuie-Ra.

By:

McDuie-Ra, Duncan [Author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Description: 1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9789048551538
9048551536

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

GV859 .S538 2021

Online resources:

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Contents:

2. Shredding the Urban Fabric -- 3. Chasing the Concrete Dragon -- 4. Spectacle Cities: The Luxury of Emptiness -- 5. For the Love of Soviet Planning -- 6. Skateboarding's New Frontiers -- 7. Conclusion: Another 'Next China'.

Subject: As urban development in Asia has accelerated, cities in the region have become central to skateboarding culture, livelihoods, and consumption. Asia's urban landscapes are desired for their endless supply of 'spots'. A spot is assemblage of objects, surfaces and obstacles holding the possibilities to perform skateboarding manoeuvres (tricks). Spots are not built for skateboarding; they are accidents of urban planning and commercial activity; glitches in the urban machine. Skateboarders and filmers chase these glitches searching for spots to make skate video, the currency of the industry and skateboarding's primary cultural artefact. Once captured, performances at Asia's spots circulate rapidly through digital platforms to millions of skateboarders, enrolling spots from Shenzhen, Dubai and Ramallah into an alternative cartography of the region. By focusing on this alternative way of desiring and consuming urban Asia, this book explores the ways skateboarding resets relational and comparative hierarchies of urban development within Asia and between Asia and the West.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	GV859.8 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1237868802

Includes bibliographies and index.

1. Urban Asia: Endless Spots -- 2. Shredding the Urban Fabric -- 3. Chasing the Concrete Dragon -- 4. Spectacle Cities: The Luxury of Emptiness -- 5. For the Love of Soviet Planning -- 6. Skateboarding's New Frontiers -- 7. Conclusion: Another 'Next China'.

As urban development in Asia has accelerated, cities in the region have become central to skateboarding culture, livelihoods, and consumption. Asia's urban landscapes are desired for their endless supply of 'spots'. A spot is assemblage of objects, surfaces and obstacles holding the possibilities to perform skateboarding manoeuvres (tricks). Spots are not built for skateboarding; they are accidents of urban planning and commercial activity; glitches in the urban machine. Skateboarders and filmers chase these glitches searching for spots to make skate video, the currency of the industry and skateboarding's primary cultural artefact. Once captured, performances at Asia's spots circulate rapidly through digital platforms to millions of skateboarders, enrolling spots from Shenzhen, Dubai and Ramallah into an alternative cartography of the region. By focusing on this alternative way of desiring and consuming urban Asia, this book explores the ways skateboarding resets relational and comparative hierarchies of urban development within Asia and between Asia and the West.

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