Worlding Cities Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global

by Roy, Ananya; Ong, Aihwa

• ISBN13: 9781405192767
• ISBN10: 1405192763
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-15
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Series Editors' Preface	p. xiii
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction Worlding Cities, or the Art of Being Global	p. 1
Modeling	p. 27
Singapore as Model: Planning Innovations, Knowledge Experts	p. 29
Urban Modeling and Contemporary Technologies of City-Building in China: The Production of Regimes of Green Urbanisms	p. 55
Planning Privatopolis: Representation and Contestation in the Development of Urban Integrated Mega-Projects	p. 77
Ecological Urbanization: Calculating Value in an Age of Global Climate Change	p. 98
Inter-Referencing	p. 127
Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia's Urban Postmodern: The Case of Hong Kong	p. 129
Cracks in the Facade: Landscapes of Hope and Desire in Dubai	p. 160
Asia in the Mix: Urban Form and Global Mobilities - Hong Kong, Vancouver, Dubai	p. 182
Hyperbuilding: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Hyperspace of Sovereignty	p. 205
New Solidarities	p. 227
Speculating on the Next World City	p. 229
The Blockade of the World-Class City: Dialectical Images of Indian Urbanism	p. 259
Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi	p. 279
Conclusion Postcolonial Urbanism: Speed, Hysteria, Mass Dreams	p. 307
Index	p. 336
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