Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 538 g
Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 538 g
Reihe: Studies in Urban and Social Change
ISBN: 978-1-4051-9276-7
Verlag: Wiley
Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization. It includes important contributions from a respected group of scholars across a range of generations, disciplines, and sites of study.
- Describes the new theoretical framework of ‘worlding’
- Substantially expands and updates the themes of capital and culture
- Includes a unique collection of authors across generations, disciplines, and sites of study
- Demonstrates how references to Asian power, success, and hegemony make possible urban development and limit urban politics
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialisation, Soziale Interaktion, Sozialer Wandel
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Illustrations vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Series Editors’ Preface xiii
Preface and Acknowledgments xv
Introduction Worlding Cities, or the Art of Being Global 1
Aihwa Ong
Part I Modeling 27
1 Singapore as Model: Planning Innovations, Knowledge Experts 29
Chua Beng Huat
2 Urban Modeling and Contemporary Technologies of City-Building in China: The Production of Regimes of Green Urbanisms 55
Lisa Hoffman
3 Planning Privatopolis: Representation and Contestation in the Development of Urban Integrated Mega-Projects 77
Gavin Shatkin
4 Ecological Urbanization: Calculating Value in an Age of Global Climate Change 98
Shannon May
Part II Inter-Referencing 127
5 Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia's Urban Postmodern: The Case of Hong Kong 129
Helen F. Siu
6 Cracks in the Façade: Landscapes of Hope and Desire in Dubai 160
Chad Haines
7 Asia in the Mix: Urban Form and Global Mobilities – Hong Kong, Vancouver, Dubai 182
Glen Lowry and Eugene McCann
8 Hyperbuilding: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Hyperspace of Sovereignty 205
Aihwa Ong
Part III New Solidarities 227
9 Speculating on the Next World City 229
Michael Goldman
10 The Blockade of the World-Class City: Dialectical Images of Indian Urbanism 259
Ananya Roy
11 Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi 279
D. Asher Ghertner
Conclusion Postcolonial Urbanism: Speed, Hysteria, Mass Dreams 307
Ananya Roy
Index 336