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Worlding Cities - Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global

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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...

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Authors Aihwa Ong, Roy, A Roy, Ananya Roy, Ananya (EDT)/ Ong Roy, Ananya (University of California Roy, Ananya Ong Roy
Assisted by Ong (Editor), Ong (Editor), Aihwa Ong (Editor), Anany Roy (Editor), Ananya Roy (Editor)
Publisher Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 15.07.2011
 
EAN 9781405192774
ISBN 978-1-4051-9277-4
No. of pages 376
Series Studies in Urban and Social Change
Studies in Urban and Social Change
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology

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