Worlding Cities
Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global
Published on 9. June 2011
376 pages
978-1-4443-4678-7 (ISBN)
Description
Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asianurbanism to highlight the connections between different Asianmodels and practices of urbanization. It includes importantcontributions from a respected group of scholars across a range ofgenerations, disciplines, and sites of study.
* Describes the new theoretical framework of'worlding'
* Substantially expands and updates the themes of capital andculture
* Includes a unique collection of authors across generations,disciplines, and sites of study
* Demonstrates how references to Asian power, success, andhegemony make possible urban development and limit urbanpolitics
* Describes the new theoretical framework of'worlding'
* Substantially expands and updates the themes of capital andculture
* Includes a unique collection of authors across generations,disciplines, and sites of study
* Demonstrates how references to Asian power, success, andhegemony make possible urban development and limit urbanpolitics
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Ananya Roy is Professor of City and Regional Planning andCo-Director of Global Metropolitan Studies at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley. Her most recent book is Poverty Capital:Microfinance and the Making of Development (2010).
Aihwa Ong is Professor of Socio-cultural Anthropology atthe University of California, Berkeley. Her most recentpublications are Privatizing China, Socialism from Afar(2008) and Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate(2010).
Aihwa Ong is Professor of Socio-cultural Anthropology atthe University of California, Berkeley. Her most recentpublications are Privatizing China, Socialism from Afar(2008) and Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate(2010).
Content
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 Experts29
Chua Beng Huat
2 Urban Modeling and Contemporary Technologies of City-Buildingin China: The Production of Regimes of Green Urbanisms 55
Lisa Hoffman
3 Planning Privatopolis: Representation and Contestation in theDevelopment of Urban Integrated Mega-Projects 77
Gavin Shatkin
4 Ecological Urbanization: Calculating Value in an Age of GlobalClimate Change 98
Shannon May
Part II Inter-Referencing 127
5 Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia's UrbanPostmodern: The Case of Hong Kong 129
Helen F. Siu
6 Cracks in the Façade: Landscapes of Hope and Desire inDubai 160
Chad Haines
7 Asia in the Mix: Urban Form and Global Mobilities - HongKong, Vancouver, Dubai 182
Glen Lowry and Eugene McCann
8 Hyperbuilding: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Hyperspace ofSovereignty 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 ofIndian Urbanism 259
Ananya Roy
11 Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi279
D. Asher Ghertner
Conclusion Postcolonial Urbanism: Speed, Hysteria, Mass Dreams307
Ananya Roy
Index 336
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 Experts29
Chua Beng Huat
2 Urban Modeling and Contemporary Technologies of City-Buildingin China: The Production of Regimes of Green Urbanisms 55
Lisa Hoffman
3 Planning Privatopolis: Representation and Contestation in theDevelopment of Urban Integrated Mega-Projects 77
Gavin Shatkin
4 Ecological Urbanization: Calculating Value in an Age of GlobalClimate Change 98
Shannon May
Part II Inter-Referencing 127
5 Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia's UrbanPostmodern: The Case of Hong Kong 129
Helen F. Siu
6 Cracks in the Façade: Landscapes of Hope and Desire inDubai 160
Chad Haines
7 Asia in the Mix: Urban Form and Global Mobilities - HongKong, Vancouver, Dubai 182
Glen Lowry and Eugene McCann
8 Hyperbuilding: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Hyperspace ofSovereignty 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 ofIndian Urbanism 259
Ananya Roy
11 Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi279
D. Asher Ghertner
Conclusion Postcolonial Urbanism: Speed, Hysteria, Mass Dreams307
Ananya Roy
Index 336
