“Cinema at the City’s Edge” is an international conference devoted to the historically new urban spaces under construction in East Asia and their representation in film and other media. As it investigates the ways that this transformation of Asian cityscapes is visualized and mediated, the conference will stage an interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars of cinema, architecture, and urban studies, and it will place developments in the People’s Republic of China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea within a regional context.