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Worlding Cities de Ananya Roy

Worlding Cities

Editat de Ananya Roy, Aihwa Ong
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 aug 2011
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
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781405192767
ISBN-10: 1405192763
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Graduate and undergraduate students and academics of anthropology, geography, sociology, urban studies, politics, global studies, urban planning, architecture, cultural studies and Asian studies

Notă biografică

Ananya Roy is Professor of City and Regional Planning and Co-Director of Global Metropolitan Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent book is Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development (2010). Aihwa Ong is Professor of Socio-cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent publications are Privatizing China, Socialism from Afar (2008) and Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate (2010).

Cuprins

List of Illustrations viiNotes 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

Descriere

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.