Worlding Cities (eBook)

Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global

Ananya Roy, Aihwa Ong (Herausgeber)

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2011
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-4678-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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

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).

Inhalt

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

Rezensionen

"I am hopeful that this collection, along with others of its kind, will inspire new lines of research and theorisation that will help arrest the actual realities of cities in an era of planetary urbanisation." (Urban Studies, 1 February 2015)



"Urban studies is marked by an ingrained tendency to consider
cities in Western Europe and North America as the leading edge of
global urban change. This important book draws attention to ways in
which cities in Asia are experimenting with ways of being global
which do not necessarily refer back to antecedents in the North
Atlantic world. The book should be read not only by Asianists but
by anyone who is interested in the dynamics of urban change
globally."

--Tim Bunnell, National University of Singapore

"The contributors to Worlding Cities bring new
ethnographic attention to urban sites of innovation, cultural
connections, and potentially transformative aspirations. They
connect what is happening in cities to the ways changing relations
among cities are remaking connections across national boundaries.
And in the process they help to remake social science with new
connections among anthropologists, geographers, and urban planners.
Focused mainly on Asia, this is work that matters
globally."

--Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research
Council

"A refreshing and wide-ranging volume that makes a timely
contribution to debates in urban studies, geography, and planning.
Rather than attempt to identify the features of a 'global' city or
trace the reproduction of 'Western' forms in Asian cities, this
collection examines how projects of 'worlding' are actively
assembled and urban futures envisaged. It uncovers diverse routes
through which cities inter-reference one another and are produced
as distinctive spaces of experimentation and aspiration in contexts
of uncertainty and inequality."

--Colin McFarlane, Durham University, UK

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.6.2011
• Reihe/Serie: IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Urban and Social Change
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Urban and Social Change
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Geographie • Geography • Greater Asia, global studies, Asian urbanism, urbanization, urban politics, reworlding<br /> <br /> • Stadtgeographie • Stadtsoziologie • Urban Geography
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-4678-4 / 1444346784
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-4678-7 / 9781444346787