Worlding cities [electronic resource] : Asian experiments and the art of being global / edited by Ananya Roy and Aihwa Ong.
Roy, Ananya.; Ong, Aihwa.
2011
HT384.A78 W67 2011eb
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Title Worlding cities [electronic resource] : Asian experiments and the art of being global / edited by Ananya Roy and Aihwa Ong.
ISBN 9781444346770 (electronic book)
9781405192774
9781405192767
9781444346800
9781444346787
9781444346794
Imprint Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 352 p.) : ill.
Call Number HT384.A78 W67 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 307.76095
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
"From Dubai to Delhi and from Singapore to Shanghai, cities across Asia are sites of intense experiments with different ways of being global. This book intervenes in urban theory focused on established global cities, and instead argues that the urban globality is something that is continually being imagined, assembled, and contested. Greater Asia is a region of vibrant innovations in urban design, built forms, governance, aesthetics, and politics. Worlding Cities draws attention to diverse projects of 'worlding' and "reworlding" that draw upon local and transnational relationships. Alternative ways of being global are instantiated through practices of mobility, modeling, and speculation that inter-reference other Asian sites. As many of the essays in this book illustrate, different Asian futures are being shaped in cities, from green governmentality to eco-city, from corporate speculations to political contestations over urban development, from "world-class" city branding to demands for "world-class" services, and from sky-high hopes to dashed dreams on the ground for city-dwellers and migrants. This inter-generation and interdisciplinary group of authors offers the first serious examination of diverse actors, energies, and conditions at play in defining new worlds of inter-Asian urbanism"-- Provided by publisher.
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Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Roy, Ananya.
Ong, Aihwa.
Series Studies in urban and social change.
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Singapore as model: planning innovations, knowledge experts / Chua Beng Huat
Urban modeling and contemporary technologies of city-building in China: the production of regimes of green urbanisms / Lisa Hoffman
Planning privatopolis: representation and contestation in the development of urban Integrated mega-projects / Gavin Shatkin
Ecological urbanization: calculating value in an age of global climate change / Shannon May
Retuning a provincialized middle class in Asia's urban postmodern: the case of Hong Kong / Helen F. Siu
Cracks in the façade: landscapes of hope and desire in Dubai / Chad Haines
Asia in the mix: urban form and global mobilities : Hong Kong, Vancouver, Dubai / Glen Lowry and Eugene McCann
Hyperbuilding: spectacle, speculation, and the hyperspace of sovereignty / Aihwa Ong
Speculating on the next world city / Michael Goldman
The blockade of the world-class city: dialectical images of Indian urbanism / Ananya Roy
Rule by aesthetics: world-class city making in Delhi / D. Asher Ghertner
Conclusion: postcolonial urbanism: speed, hysteria, mass dreams / Ananya Roy.

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