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Asian Alleyways: An Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization critically explores Global Asia and the metropolization process, specifically from its alleyways, which are understood as ordinary neighbourhood landscapes providing the setting for everyday urban life and place-based identities being shaped by varied everyday practices, collective experiences and forces. Beyond the mainstream, standardising vision of the metropolization process,
Asian Alleyways offers a nuanced overview of urban production in Asia at a time of great changes, and will be welcomed by an array of scholars, students, and all those interested in the modern transformation of Asian cities and their urban cultures.
List of contents
Acknowledgements, Asian alleyways: An urban vernacular in times of globalization (Marie GIBERT-FLUTRE and Heide IMAI), CHAPTER 1 Between 'network' and 'territory': Ho Chi Minh City's alleyways as challenged liminal spaces (Marie GIBERT-FLUTRE), CHAPTER 2 Street-corner society and everyday politics in the Beijing hutong: Ethnographic perspectives (Judith AUDIN), CHAPTER 3 Alleyways between urban renewal, cultural innovation, and social integration: The cases of Tokyo and Seoul (Heide IMAI), CHAPTER 4 The transformation of 'urban ordinaries' into creative places: A case study of Bangkok's alleyway neighbourhoods (Wimonrart ISSARATHUMNOON), CHAPTER 5 Shanghai lilong: From everyday life to conceived space (Jiayu DING and Xiaohua ZHONG), CHAPTER 6 From conflicts to commoning: Alleyways as sites for social innovations in Taipei (Jeffrey HOU), CHAPTER 7 Magic Lanes: A placemaking approach for laneway spaces in Hong Kong (Melissa CATE CHRIST and Hendrik TIEBEN), The future of Asian alleyways: Towards integrated and diverse alleyways (Heide IMAI and Marie GIBERT-FLUTRE), Index
About the author
Dr. Marie Gibert-Flutre is Assistant Professor of Geography in the Department of East Asia Studies (LCAO) at the University of Paris.
Dr. Heide Imai is Associate Professor at Senshu University, Faculty of Intercultural Communication, Tokyo, Japan.
