Tourist utopias offshore islands, enclave spaces, and mobile imaginaries / edited by TIm Simpson.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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

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

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

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

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

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