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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of how the developmental goals of Asian states are reflected in large-scale projects and how various actors both realize and challenge these goals. It advances the argument that megaprojects embody the dynamics of multiscalar strategic relations that determine the process and outcome of urbanization.
List of contents
1. Situating Megaprojects in Asia's Political Economy of Urbanization
Hyun Bang Shin and Dong-Wan Gimm 2. Seeing Gangnam Like a State: An Exemplary Model of National Megaproject in South Korea
Dong-Wan Gimm 3. Coping With Crises in (Post-)Developmental Urbanization: The Case Study of Songdo International City, South Korea
Hyun Bang Shin and Do Young Oh 4. Taoyuan Aerotropolis Project as New Zone-City: The Assemblage of Smart Urbanism in Taiwan
Shu-wei Chang and Jinn-yuh Hsu 5. Multiscalar Dynamics Driving India's Urban Megaprojects: Speculative Urbanization and the IT Corridor in Chennai
Loraine Kennedy 6. Production of State-Capital Relations Through Megaprojects in Istanbul: The Third Airport Case
Çär¿ Çar¿kç¿ 7. Guangzhou's Majestic Axis: The Political Reinvention of Urban Form
Francesca Frassoldati and Alessandro Armando 8. Land-for-Infrastructure Deals and the Post-Politicization of Urban Governance in Penang, Malaysia
Creighton Connolly 9. Between Megaprojects and Micro-Politics: Planning and the Post-Liberalization Indian City
Shoshana R. Goldstein 10. Manufacturing Cities: Industrial Policy and Urban Planning in India
Neha Sami and Shriya Anand
About the author
Hyun Bang Shin is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies and Head of the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Dong-Wan Gimm is Associate Professor of Urban Studies in the Department of Sociology, Kyungnam University, Changwon.
Summary
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of how the developmental goals of Asian states are reflected in large-scale projects and how various actors both realize and challenge these goals. It advances the argument that megaprojects embody the dynamics of multiscalar strategic relations that determine the process and outcome of urbanization.
