The reporter, the flâneur, and the critic: The urbanist as outsider in the South Asian mega-city
New Delhi, Mumbai, Bombay, urbanism, urbanisme, urbanist, urbaniste, mégapole, sociologie urbaine, Asie, Asia, Inde, India, culture urbaine, flâneur, Hogan Trevor
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor:</b></div>
</div>
‘No urbanism without urbanists’ might be a slogan that captures the European and North American urban experience over the past two centuries. Indeed, it is arguable that urbanism is not only an empirical description of material cultures of cities but is also a creative act of the inscriptions on the cities by writers themselves – from Ruskin, Baudelaire, and Geddes to Benjamin, Mumford and Hall, and from the Chicago School to Jacobs, Sennett and Davis. But where, when and who are the Asian urbanists? And is this question too late in an era of globalised megacities? Can we still write the city? Are they not too big, fast, splintered and complex to be encapsulated textually in their totality? Are we witnessing instead in the Asian-Pacific Century, urbanisms without urbanists?<br />
<br />
This paper looks at four contemporary urbanists and their writings on two key megacities of India – New Delhi and Mumbai, two megacities whose forms and lives are crucial to the next phase of India’s emergence as a global power. They are difficult cities in every sense – complex, explosive, dangerous, fluid and creative - and therefore ideal sites for understanding 21st century forms of urbanisms. Here I choose writers who are outsiders to the cities they write about: they are migrants and expatriates, but who also work from the margins of the social sciences of the academy. I attend to their authorship and their social and institutional settings; this in turn invites reflection on readerships, but more importantly about the types of authorship available to, and developed by, urbanists over the past two hundred years. The paper shifts to the texts themselves and reflects about forms of writing (genre, style, and rhetoric) as much as to what they have come to say about their cities. The paper concludes with some reflections on their arguments for a critical understanding of the contemporary South Asia mega-city by suggesting that indeed there is no urbanism without urbanists and this is so in Asian cities of the 21st century no less.</div>
</div>
<b>Trevor Hogan</b> commenced a 3-month appointment as a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Asian Urbanisms Cluster with effect from 27 December 2010. He teaches in Social Sciences, La Trobe University. He is the Director, Philippines-Australia Studies Centre, and Deputy-Director, Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology.</div>
</div>
Trevor Hogan
8 March 2011
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/publication_details.asp?pubtypeid=AU&pubid=1963
Globopolis versus cosmopolis : Alternative paradigms for livable cities in Asia
, dynamiques urbaines, gouvernance, participation, néolibéralisme, mondialisation, cosmopolitisme, espace urbain, privatisation, ville globale, global city, urbanité, Asia, Asie, Douglass Mike
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor : </b></div>
</div>
From the late 1980s the production of urban space in Asia has been proceeding under historically new dynamics that are rapidly transforming city life. One dimension of these dynamics is the emergence of a middle class that is pushing for political reform and greater participation in urban governance. At the same time, in an ascendant neoliberal policy era of diminishing scope for public policy, intensifying inter-city competition for global investment and status is turning the economy and political orientation of the city outward toward global accumulation and private management of urban space. As these dynamics interplay, a contest is emerging between two contrasting visions of the urban future. One is the idea of the city as an inclusive cosmopolis actively accommodating diversity and local production of urban space. The other is one of an extroverted globopolis of homogeneous spaces of consumption designed to protect those who are able to access them from the “chaos” of the city of the less wealthy and the poor. While democratization and the rise of civil society provide openings for more cosmopolitan outcomes, fragmentation of the city through mega-projects privatizing urban spaces on very large scales is steering the city toward a globopolis composed of zones of exclusion. The future of cities will depend on how the balance is struck between these two visions of a livable city.</div>
</div>
<b>Mike Douglass </b>is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Executive Director of the Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawai'i.</div>
</div>
Mike Douglass
15 June 2010
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/publication_details.asp?pubtypeid=AU&pubid=1837
Planning privatopolis : Urban integrated megaprojects and the transformation of Asian cities
, ville nouvelle, privatisation, projet urbain, aménagement urbain, ségrégation urbaine, politique urbaine, espace urbain, gouvernance, Shatkin Gavin, Asie, Asia
<div><b>Organisers' description : </b></div>
</div>
The past two decades have witnessed the emergence throughout Asia of the idea that, through the development of large scale, controlled urban environments master planned and managed on a commercial basis by private developers, cities can transcend their congestion and poverty and enhance their competitiveness in the global economy. These ‘urban integrated megaprojects’ (UIMs) have proliferated in most major cities in the region. In Jakarta, for example, a 1998 study listed 16 privatized ‘new town’ projects either planned or under construction, with a combined land area about equal to that of New York City. In India projects like Dankuni Township in Kolkata and Maha Mumbai have been planned for populations approaching a million. These projects have the potential to dramatically reconfigure the sociospatial landscape of cities throughout Asia. While touted by governments and developers as critical for economic growth, they also raise troubling questions of displacement, environmental damage, and socioeconomic segregation that have major implications for social equity and environmental sustainability. <br />
<br />
In addressing the question of why UIMs have become so prevalent, the literature on these projects has largely focused on two related arguments: that they represent a Westernization or Americanization of urban form; and that they are a product of the desire of an emerging elite to retreat from the chaos of the city into controlled urban enclaves. In other words, most analyses focus on the middle and upper classes and developers as the key agents of this change. In this presentation, I will focus instead on the role of the state in driving this model. I will argue that UIMs represent one manifestation of the privatization of urban planning, i.e. the transfer of responsibility for and power over the visioning of urban futures and the planning, implementation and regulation of urban spaces from public to private sector actors. Highlighting the agency of government planning and policy in driving forward the UIM model focuses attention on the changing dynamics of citizenship in the global era. It calls on us to assess state objectives in pursuing this model, which include the monetization of land and the creation of controlled spaces for accumulation. It also calls attention to the reallocation of rights and privileges that is taking place in contemporary cities, specifically the assertion of ability to pay as a key criterion in determining the right to access urban space, and the growth of state-backed efforts to purge cities of extra-legal appropriations of space by the urban poor.<br />
<br />
<b>Gavin Shatkin</b> is Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.</div>
</div>
Gavin Shatkin
22 July 2010
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/publication_details.asp?pubtypeid=AU&pubid=1679
The new Asian city: Three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form
littérature, film, forme urbaine, espace urbain, Asie, Asia, culture urbaine, paysage urbain, ville coloniale, croissance urbaine, built environment, cadre bâti, Watson Jini Kim
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> Under Jini Kim Watson’s scrutiny, the Asian Tiger metropolises of Seoul, Taipei, and Singapore reveal a surprising residue of the colonial environment. Drawing on a wide array of literary, filmic, and political works, and juxtaposing close readings of the built environment, Watson demonstrates how processes of migration and construction in the hypergrowth urbanscapes of the Pacific Rim crystallize the psychic and political dramas of their colonized past and globalized present.<br /> <br /> Tracing the way newly constructed spaces—including expressways, high-rises, factory zones, and department stores—become figured within cultural texts, The New Asian City explores how urban transformations were rationalized, perceived, and fictionalized. Watson shows how literature, film, and poetry have described and challenged contemporary Asian metropolises, especially around the formation of gendered and laboring subjects in these new spaces. She suggests that by embracing the postwar growth-at-any-cost imperative, they have buttressed the nationalist enterprise along neocolonial lines.<br /> <br /> The New Asian City provides an innovative approach to how we might better understand the gleaming metropolises of the Pacific Rim. In doing so, it demonstrates how reading cultural production in conjunction with built environments can enrich our knowledge of the lived consequences of rapid economic and urban development.</div> </div> <b>Jini Kim Watson </b>is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University.</div> </div>
Jini Kim Watson
University of Minnesota Press
November 2011
312
Ouvrage
The growth of non-Western cities : Primary and secondary urban networking c. 900 - 1900
Sudan, Soudan, Mexico, Mexique, Middle East, Moyen-Orient, Asia, Asie, histoire urbaine, croissance urbaine, réseaux, religion, société urbaine, Hall Kenneth R.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> These interdisciplinary studies address pre-1900 non-Western urban growth in the African Sudan, Mexico, the Ottoman Middle East, and South, Southeast, and East Asia. Therein, primary and secondary cities served as functional societal agents that were viable and potentially powerful alternatives to the diversity of kinship-based local or regional networks, the societal delegated spaces in which local and external agencies met and interacted in a wide variety of political, economic, spiritual, and military forms. They were variously transportation centers, sites of a central temples, court and secular administration centers, fortified military compounds, intellectual (literary) activity cores, and marketplace and/or craft production sites. One element of these urban centers' existence might have been more important than others, as a political capital, a cultural capital, or an economic capital. In the post-1500 era of increasing globalization, especially with the introduction of new technologies of transport, communication, and warfare, non-Western cities even more became the hubs of knowledge, societal, and cultural formation and exchange because of the location of both markets and political centers in urban areas. New forms of professionalism, militarization, and secular bureaucratization were foundational to centralizing state hierarchies that could exert more control over their networked segments. This book's authors consciously attempt to balance the histories of functional urban agency between the local and the exogenous, giving weight to local activities, events, beliefs, institutions, communities, individuals, and historical narratives. In several studies, both external and internal societal prejudices and the inability of key decision makers to understand indigenous reality led to negative consequences both in the local environment and in the global arena.</div> </div> <b>Contents : </b></div> </div> Kenneth R. Hall - Introduction<br /> Stephen Morillo - Cities, Networks, and Cultures of Knowledge: A Global Overview<br /> <br /> Part I: Urban Networking in the Early Indian Ocean Realm :<br /> Hyunhee Park - Port-City Networking in the Indian Ocean Commercial System Represented in Geographic and Cartographic Works in China and the Islamic West from c. 750 to 1500<br /> Hugh Clark - Secondary Ports and Their Cults: Religious Innovation in the Port System of Greater Quangzhou (Southern China) in the 10th-12th Centuries<br /> Kenneth R. Hall - Buddhist Conversions and the Creation of Urban Hierarchies in Vietnam and Cambodia, c. 1000-1200<br /> John K. Whitmore - Why Did Le Van Thinh Revolt? Buddhism and Political Integration in Early 12th Century Dai Viet<br /> Elizabeth Lambourn - Khuba and Muslim Networks in the Indian Ocean (Part II) -- Timurid and Ottoman Engagements<br /> Jay Spaulding - Urbanization and Ironworking in the Nubian State Tradition<br /> <br /> Part II: Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Non-Western World, c. 1500-1900<br /> Christopher Agnew - Dengzhou and the Bohai Gulf in Seventeenth-Century Northeast Asia<br /> Michael H. Chiang - The Origins of the Post Designation System in the Qing Field Administration Network<br /> Marc Jason Gilbert - The Collapse of the English Trade Entrepôts at Pulo Condore and Banjarmasin and the Legacy of Early British East India Company Urban Network-Building in Southeast Asia<br /> Aurea Toxqui - Taverns and Their Influence on the Suburban Culture of Late Nineteenth-Century Mexico City<br /> Peter Mentzel - Networks, Railroads, and Small Cities in the Ottoman Balkans</div> </div> <b>Kenneth R. Hall </b>is Professor of History at Ball State University.</div> </div>
NC
Lexington Books
October 2011
332
Ouvrage
Worlding cities : Asian experiments and the art of being global
Asie, Asia, culture urbaine, développement urbain, politique urbaine, urbanisation, ville mondiale, world city, ville globale, global city, forme urbaine, Roy Ananya, Ong Aihwa
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> 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.<br /> <br /> - Describes the new theoretical framework of ‘worlding’<br /> - Substantially expands and updates the themes of capital and culture<br /> - Includes a unique collection of authors across generations, disciplines, and sites of study<br /> - Demonstrates how references to Asian power, success, and hegemony make possible urban development and limit urban politics</div> </div> <b>Contents :</b></div> </div> Preface</div> Aihwa Ong - Introduction : Worlding cities, or the art of being global<br /> <br /> Part I Modeling<br /> Chua Ben - Singapore as model : Planning innovations, knowledge experts</div> Lisa Hoffman - Urban modeling and contemporary technologies of city-building in China : The production of regimes of green urbanisms</div> Gavin Shatking - Planning privatopolis : Representation and contestation in the development of urban integrated mega-projects</div> </div> Part II Inter-referencing</div> Helen F. Siu - Retuning a provincialized middle class in Asia's urban postmodern : The case of Hong Kong</div> Chad Haines - Cracks in the façade : Landscapes of hope and desire in Dubai</div> Glen Lowry and Eugene McCann - Asia in the mix : Urban form and global mobilities - Hong Kong, Vancouver, Dubai</div> Aihwa Ong - Hyperbuilding : Spectacle, speculation, and the hyperspace of sovereignty</div> </div> Part III New solidarities</div> Michael Goldman - Speculating on the next world city</div> Ananya Roy - The blockade of the world-class city : Dialectical images of Indian urbanism</div> D. Asher Ghertner - Rule by aesthetics : World-class city making in Delhi</div> Ananya Roy - Conclusion : Postcolonial urbanism : Speed, hysteria, mass dreams</div> </div> <b>Ananya Roy </b>is Professor of City and Regional Planning and Co-Director of Global Metropolitan Studies at the University of California, Berkeley</div> <b>Aihwa Ong </b>is Professor of Socio-cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley</div> </div>
Ananya Roy Aihwa Ong
Wiley-Blackwell
July 2011
376
Ouvrage
Planning Asian cities : Risks and resilience
Asia, Asie, développement urbain, histoire de l'urbanisme, mondialisation, développement durable, aménagement urbain, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, Beijing, Shanghai, Bangkok, Jakarta, Manila, Manille, Séoul, Singapour, Hamnett Stephen, Forbes Dean
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> In Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience, Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region’s most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific Asia’s major cities.<br /> <br /> They show how globalization, and the competition to achieve global city status, has had a profound effect on all these cities. Tokyo is an archetypal world city. Singapore, Hong Kong and Seoul have acquired world city characteristics. Taipei and Kuala Lumpur have been at the centre of expanding economies in which nationalism and global aspirations have been intertwined and expressed in the built environment. Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai have played key, sometimes competing, roles in China’s rapid economic growth. Bangkok’s amenity economy is currently threatened by political instability, while Jakarta and Manila are the core city-regions of less developed countries with sluggish economies and significant unrealized potential.<br /> <br /> But how resilient are these cities to the risks that they face? How can they manage continuing pressures for development and growth while reducing their vulnerability to a range of potential crises? How well prepared are they for climate change? How can they build social capital, so important to a city’s recovery from shocks and disasters? What forms of governance and planning are appropriate for the vast mega-regions that are emerging? And, given the tradition of top-down, centralized, state-directed planning which drove the economic growth of many of these cities in the last century, what prospects are there of them becoming more inclusive and sensitive to the diverse needs of their populations and to the importance of culture, heritage and local places in creating liveable cities?</div> </div> <b>Contents : </b></div> </div> Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes - Risks, resilience and planning in Asian cities</div> André Sorensen - Uneven geographies of vulnerability : Tokyo in the twenty-first century</div> Susan Walcott - The dragon's head : Spatial development of Shanghai</div> Gu Chaolin and Ian G. Cook - Beijing : Socialist Chinese capital and new world city</div> Liling Huang and Reginald Yin-Wang Kwok - Taipei's metropolitan development : Dynamics of cross-strait political economy, globalization and national identity</div> Seong-Kyu Ha - Seoul as a world city : The challenge of balanced development</div> Anthony Yeh - Hong Kong : The turning of the dragon head</div> Belinda Yuen - Singapore : Planning for more with less</div> Sirat Morshidi and Asyirah Abdul Rahim - Going global : Development, risks and responses in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya</div> Wilmar Salim and Tommy Firman - Governing the Jakarta City-Region : History, challenges, risks and strategies</div> Douglas Webster and Chuthatip Maneepong - Bangkok : New risks, old resilience</div> Brian Roberts - Manila : Metropolitan vulnerability, local resilience</div> </div> <b>Stephen Hamnett </b>is Emeritus Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of South Australia.</div> <b>Dean Forbes </b>is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International and Communities) and Vice-President at Flinders University and has published widely on Asian cities.</div> </div>
NC
Routledge
May 2011
344
Ouvrage
Asian cities : Globalization, urbanization and nation-building
, mondialisation, urbanisation, urbanité, capitalisme, nation-building, édification de la nation, Asia, Asie, McKinnon Malcolm
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> - Questions the centrality of globalization in explaining change in Asian cities and examines developing Asian cities in their own terms rather than as variants of Western urbanization.<br /> - Explores middle cities ‘off the radar’ as well as well-known metropolises.<br /> - Uses both quantitative and ethnographic research.<br /> <br /> Asian Cities challenges Western paradigms of urban growth with a fresh and stimulating look at cities in developing Asia. It questions the status accorded globalization in explaining contemporary Asian cities, arguing instead that they are being transformed by three major forces – urbanization and nation-building as well as globalization. The latter two are not dependent variables of globalization, although all, in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, are shaped by capitalism.<br /> <br /> The book reaches beyond the usual focus on metropolitan centres to examine urban life in a sample of middle-sized cities representative of hundreds of such urban centres throughout the Asian continent.</div> <br /> An introductory chapter outlines the arguments and introduces the sample cities. Chapters two and three explore two principal facets of urbanization: the material transformation that comes in its train and the impact that it has on the lives of the newly-urbanized. Chapters four to seven explore the way that the national framework shapes cities – including business enterprises, migrantion, travel and commercial popular culture. In a final chapter the book surveys likely trends in Asian cities over the next quarter century and considers the implications of the study for our understanding of globalization generally.<br /> <br /> This is a nuanced study grounded in quantitatively-based findings but enriched by qualitative research that both provides additional evidence and brings the findings alive.</div> </div> <b>Malcolm McKinnon</b> is an independent New Zealand historian who, besides researching urban development in Asia, has written extensively on New Zealand’s relations with Asia.</div> </div>
Malcolm McKinnon
Nias Press
2011
288
Ouvrage
Global urbanization
, urbanisation, croissance urbaine, planification, mondialisation, pays en développement, developing countries, Asia, Asie, Africa, Afrique, mégapole, Birch Eugenie L., Wachter Susan M.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in urban areas. Much of this urbanization has been fueled by the rapidly growing cities of the developing world, exemplified most dramatically by booming megacities such as Lagos, Karachi, and Mumbai. In the coming years, as both the number and scale of cities continue to increase, the most important matters of social policy and economic development will necessarily be urban issues. Urbanization, across the world but especially in Asia and Africa, is perhaps the critical issue of the twenty-first century.<br /> <br /> Global Urbanization surveys essential dimensions of this growth and begins to formulate a global urban agenda for the next half century. Drawing from many disciplines, the contributors tackle issues ranging from how cities can keep up with fast-growing housing needs to the possibilities for public-private partnerships in urban governance. Several essays address the role that cutting-edge technologies such as GIS software, remote sensing, and predictive growth models can play in tracking and forecasting urban growth. Reflecting the central importance of the Global South to twenty-first-century urbanism, the volume includes case studies and examples from China, India, Uganda, Kenya, and Brazil.<br /> <br /> While the challenges posed by large-scale urbanization are immense, the future of human development requires that we find ways to promote socially inclusive growth, environmental sustainability, and resilient infrastructure. The timely and relevant scholarship assembled in Global Urbanization will be of great interest to scholars and policymakers in demography, geography, urban studies, and international development.</div> </div> <b>Eugenie L. Birch</b> is Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education, Department of City and Regional Planning, PennDesign. <br /> <b>Susan M. Wachter</b> is Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Real Estate and Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of City and Regional Planning at PennDesign.</div> </div>
NC
University of Pennsylvania Press
December 2010
384
Ouvrage
Climate change and sustainable urban development in Africa and Asia
, développement urbain, développement durable, changement climatique, ville durable, urbanisation, croissance urbaine, logement, Africa, Afrique, Asia, Asie, Kumssa Asfaw, Yuen Belinda
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> This book is about African and Asian cities. Illustrated through selected case cities, the book brings together a rich collection of papers by leading scholars and practitioners in Africa and Asia to offer empirical analysis and up-to-date discussions and assessments of the urban challenges and solutions for their cities. A number of key topics concerning housing, sustainable urban development and climate change in Africa and Asia are explored along with how policy interventions and partnerships deliver specific forms of urban development. Audience: This book is intended for all who are interested in the state of the cities and urban development in Africa and Asia. Africa and Asia present, in many ways, useful lessons in dealing with the burgeoning urban population, and the problems surrounding this influx of people and climate change in the developing world.<br /> <br /> <b>Contents : </b></div> Part I Introduction<br /> Africa and Asia: Two of the World’s Fastest Growing Regions - Belinda Yuen and Asfaw Kumssa<br /> <br /> Part II Climate Change and Urban Development<br /> Climate Change and Living Cities: Global Problems with Local Solutions - Priyanka Anand and Kallidaikurichi Seetharam<br /> Climate Change in the Context of Urban Development in Africa - Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr.<br /> A Region of Contrasts: Urban Development, Housing and Poverty in Asia - Kioe Sheng Yap<br /> The Effects of Climate Change on Urban Human Settlements in Africa<br /> Aloysius Clemence Mosha<br /> <br /> Part III Climate Change and Housing: Case Studies from Africa and Asia<br /> Climate Change and the Housing Environment in Ghana - Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwa and Michael Poku-Boansi<br /> Creating a Sustainable Living Environment for Public Housing in Singapore - Johnny Liang Heng Wong<br /> Climatic Change and Housing Issues in South Africa - Bornwell C. Chikulo<br /> Climate Change and Sustainable Housing in Uganda - Stephen A.K. Magezi<br /> Housing and Climate Change: Adaptation Strategies in Vietnam - Vinh Hung Hoang<br /> <br /> Part IV Climate Change and Its Effect on Cities: Case Studies from Africa and Asia<br /> Climate Change and Cities’ Actions in China - Xiaodong Pan and Zhenshan Li<br /> Climate Change and Its Effect on Cities of Eastern African Countries - Samuel Kerunyu Gichere, George Michael Sikoyo, and Ally Matano Saidi <br /> Climate Change and Liveable Cities in Malaysia - Kamalruddin Shamsudin and Suan Siow Neo<br /> Climate Change and Its Effect on Urban Housing and Liveable Cities: The Case of Harare, Zimbabwe - Rodreck Mupedziswa</div> </div> <b>Belinda Yuen </b>is an Associate Professor in the School of Design and Environment at the National University of Singapore.</div> <b>Asfaw Kumssa </b>is Coordinator of the United Nations Centre for Regional Development Africa Office in Nairobi.</div> </div>
NC
Springer
December 2010
266
Ouvrage
Fluidity of place : Globalization and the transformation of urban space
Jakarta, Asie, Asia, mégapole, mondialisation, espace urbain, mobilité, Yoshihara Naoki
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
</div>
Fluidity of Place presents an interdisciplinary conversation with theories of space-time, place and globalization at the cutting edge of social theory. Focussing on the construction of urban space in the context of hyper-mobility, Yoshihara examines the social relations that form place in a globalized world. The first half of the book discusses globalization theory and looks at place in relation to the fluidity brought about by recent technological advances. The second half details the construction of understandings of Asian mega-cities, particularly Jakarta, and examines the realities behind narratives of overurbanization in light of globalization and the concomitant fluidity of place. Yoshihara makes a compelling argument about the competing claims to place in a world where the nation-state has lost control of its borders.</div>
</div>
<b>Naoki Yoshihara </b>is a Professor of Sociology in the Graduate School of Arts and Letters at Tohoku University, Japan.</div>
</div>
Naoki Yoshihara
Trans Pacific Press
April 2010
233
Ouvrage
Asian cities, migrant labor and contested spaces
, migration urbaine, migrant, immigration, mondialisation, conflit urbain, espace urbain, mutation urbaine, Asie, Asia, Wong Tai-Chee, Rigg Jonathan
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
</div>
This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the 1990s following the end of the Cold War which marked the advent of a renewed phase of globalization. Cities have become centrally implicated in globalization processes and, therefore, have become objects and sites of intense study.<br />
<br />
The contributors to this book reflect on the impact and significance of migration with a particular focus on the contested spaces that are emerging in urban contexts and the economic, social, religious and cultural domains with which they intersect. They also examines the roles and effects of different forms of migration in the cauldron of urban change, from low-skilled domestic migrants who maintain a close engagement with their rural homes, to highly skilled/professional transnational migrants, to legal and illegal international migrants who arrive with the hope of transforming their livelihoods.<br />
<br />
Providing a mosaic of insights into the links between migration, marginalization and contestation in Asia’s urban contexts, Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, migration studies, urban studies and human geography.</div>
</div>
<b>Contents : </b></div>
</div>
Introduction: Contemporary Urban Migration and a Theoretical Approach <br />
1. Contestation and Exclusion in Asian Urban Spaces Under the Impact of Globalization: An Introduction - Jonathan Rigg and Tai-Chee Wong <br />
2. International and Intra-national Migrations: Human Mobility in Pacific Asian Cities in the Globalization Age - Tai-Chee Wong <br />
Part I: The International Migration Dimension in Asian Cities <br />
3. The Migrant as a Nexus of Social Relations: An Empirical Analysis - Him Chung and Kai-chi Leung <br />
4. Post-industrialism and Residencing ‘New Immigration’ in Singapore - Leo van Grunsven <br />
5. Integrative Rhetoric and Exclusionary Realities in Bangladesh-Malaysia Migration Policies: Discourse on Networks and Development - Akm Ahsan Ullah <br />
6. Labouring for the Child: Transnational Experiences of Chinese Migrant Mothers and Children in Singapore - Dennis Kwek Beng-Kiat and Christine Tan Sze-Yin <br />
7. Ethnic Enclaves in Korean Cities: Formation, Residential Patterns and Communal Features - Dong-Hoon Seol <br />
8. Circular Migration and its Socioeconomic Consequences: The Economic Marginality among Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan - Hirohisa Takenoshita <br />
9. Migrant Labour, Residential Conflict and the City: The Case of Foreign Workers’ Invasion of Residential Neighbourhoods in Penang, Malaysia - Morshidi Sirat and Suriati Ghazali <br />
Part II: The Domestic Migration Dimension in Asian Cities <br />
10. Migrant Labour in the Factory Zone: Contested Spaces in the Extended Bangkok Region - Jonathan Rigg, Suriya Veeravongs, Lalida Veeravongs and Piyawadee Rohitarachoon <br />
11. Migrant Labour under the Shadow of the Hukou System: The Case of Guangdong - Jianfa Shen <br />
12. Marginalization of Rural Migrants in China’s Transitional Cities - Li Zhang <br />
13. Living at the Margins: Migration and the Contested Arena of Waste Re-use Aquaculture Systems in Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Albert M. Salamanca and Jonathan Rigg</div>
</div>
<b>Tai-Chee Wong</b> is Associate Professor at National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.<b><br />
Jonathan Rigg</b> is Head of Department and Professor in the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK.</div>
</div>
NC
Routledge
August 2010
312
Ouvrage
Re-inventing global cities: CUPEM 20th anniversary international conference
ville mondiale, ville globale, world city, global city, économie, renouvellement urbain, développement urbain, aménagement urbain, planification, Asie, Asia
<div>
University of Hong Kong. Centre of Urban Planning and Environmental Management
University of Hong Kong. Centre of Urban Planning and Environmental Management
11 November 2000
199
Autre
The state of Asian cities 2010-11
Asie, Asia, urbanisation, économie, pauvreté, environnement, gouvernance, inégalité, changement climatique
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> The report throws new light on current issues and challenges which national and local governments, the business sector and organised civil society are facing. On top of putting forward a number of recommendations, this report testifies to the wealth of good, innovative practice that countries of all sizes and development stages have accumulated across the region. It shows us that sustainable human settlements are within reach, and that cooperation between public authorities, the private and the voluntary sectors is the key to success. This report highlights a number of critical issues – demographic and economic trends, poverty and inequality, the environment, climate change and urban governance and management.</div> <b>Contents : </b></div> </div> The state of Asian cities : Overview and key findings</div> Urbanizing Asia</div> The economic role of Asian cities</div> Poverty and inequality in Asian cities</div> The urban environment and climate change</div> Urban governance, management and finance</div> </div>
UN-HABITAT
UN-HABITAT
2010
279
Autre
http://www.unhabitat.org/pmss/listItemDetails.aspx?publicationID=3078
Climate Resilient Cities
mégapole, ville portuaire, risque naturel, politique de la ville, planification, écologie, Asia, Asie, Pacific, Pacifique, changement climatique, développement durable, planification, Prasad Neeraj
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : <br />
</b></div>
</div>
Climate change is no longer a distant possibility but a current reality. Loss from flooding and hurricanes is an all too frequent occurrence in many countries in the Region, particularly in cities where people and assets are concentrated. Urban centers must be prepared with specialized tools to deal with climate change impacts and early warning systems.<br />
<br />
Moreover, given the potential devastation associated with future climate change-related disasters, it is vital to change the way we build and manage our cities, which account for 80 percent of greenhouse gas emissions today.<br />
<br />
Now is the time for policymakers to take an integrated look at reducing vulnerabilities to climate change and other natural disasters in a comprehensive disaster management system.<br />
<br />
This Primer is a tool for city governments in the East Asia Region to better understand how to plan for climate change impacts and impending natural disasters through sound urban planning to reduce vulnerabilities.<br />
<br />
It gives local governments information to actively engage in training, capacity building, and capital investment programs that are identified as priorities for building sustainable, resilient communities.</div>
</div>
<b>Neeraj Prasad </b>is Lead Carbon Finance Specialist and deputy to the Manager of the Carbon Finance Unit at the World Bank.</div>
</div>
Neeraj Prasad et al.
The World Bank
June 2008
157
Autre
http://www.worldbank.org/eap/climatecities
Global cities conference : Max Planck Institute
ville globale, ville mondiale, global city, world city, mondialisation, religion, politique urbaine, société urbaine, gouvernance, urbanité, culture urbaine, Asia, Asie, ethnicité, ethnicity
<div>
Multiple authors
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
9-12 August 2009
Autre
International journal of urban sciences (Vol. 1, No. 1)
conomie, ville viable, Asia, Asie, Seoul, urbanisation
<div><b>Contents:</b></div>
</div>
Jin-Hyun Kim - Reflections on modern cities</div>
Saskia Sassen - Cities in the global economy</div>
Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello, Peter Nijkamp - The co-evolutionary city</div>
Sam Ock Park - Industrial restructuring for the sustainable city in the era of globalization</div>
Alain Delissen - Place and nonplace: Low modern vs. post-modern in the making of contemporary cities</div>
Gill-Chin Lim - Civilization, global issues and humanistic globalization: A framework in urban arts and sciences</div>
Sang-Chuel Choe - A search for Asian urban paradigm: Cultural dimensions of urbanization</div>
Won Bae Kim - Cities in drift: Restructuring places for what?</div>
Myung-Rae Cho - The flexible metropolis: Networks, sociality and governance in Seoul</div>
</div>
Multiple authors
University of Seoul
1997
139
Revue
http://ijus-uos.com/ijus/inc.php?inc=esub4/sub1&skin[head]=esub4&skin[foot]=ecopy
Urban development : A new perspective
Asie, Asia, développement urbain, urbanisation, histoire urbaine, politique urbaine, environnement urbain, bidonville, démographie, croissance urbaine, Inde, India, Prasad B. K.
<b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
</div>
Although it has often been taken as a general definition of the city and urban culture (whence the commonsense notion that cities must fulfill commercial functions), Pirenne's fomulation was deficient because only the European medieval city and its burgher culture were taken as typical of the "true" city. Max Weber in <i>The City </i>(1921) provided another definition of the city, similar to Pirenne's, when he contrasted "Occidental" with "Oriental" urbanism. According to Weber, five attributes define an urban community : it must possess (1) a fortification, (2) a market, (3) a law code and court system of its own, (4) an association of urban citizenry creating a sense of municipal corporateness, and (5) sufficient political autonomy for urban citizens to choose the city's governors.</div>
</div>
Studying the cultural roles of cities must include not only the cultural beliefs and practices that emanate from cities but also the cultural forms that develop within the city as a result of the impact of the urban culture on it. In this way scholarship can bring forward a cross-culturally and historically valid conception of cities, their cultural forms, and the urban cultures in which they are set.</div>
</div>
As a country develops from primarily an agricultural to an industrial economy, large scale migration of rural residents to towns ans cities takes place. During this process, the growth rate of urban areas is typically double the pace of overall population increase. Some 29 per cent of the world population was living in urban areas in 1950; this figure was 43 per cent in 1990, and is projected to rise to about 50 per cent by the year 2000. In this book, an attempt has been made to discuss urban development, its concepts and historical development. Thus we hope that it will be an immensely important edition for all those concerned with the discipline.</div>
</div>
<b>Contents : </b></div>
</div>
Preface</div>
A history of the city in Monsoon Asia</div>
The post-urban period in Northwestern India</div>
Urbanization trends and urban policy issues</div>
Urban structure under dependent development</div>
Regional centres : An analysis of commodity flow pattern</div>
Spatial pattern of population growth</div>
Development controls and implementing machinery</div>
The urban environment</div>
Urbanization in India : Pattern and emerging policy issues</div>
Urbanization : Modernization and women's political participation</div>
Urban demographic profile</div>
Slum : The nature and the extent of the problem in India</div>
Urban poor an social ferment : A case study of Kolkata region</div>
A new perspective in the regional disparities in development : The Indian view</div>
Urbanization in 2001 A.D. : A sociological perspective</div>
</div>
NC
Sarup & Sons
2003
296
Ouvrage
http://books.google.com/books?id=zHePNF0ItykC&printsec=frontcover
Globalization and the sustainability of cities in the Asia Pacific region
Asie, Asia, Pacific, Pacifique, développement durable, mondialisation, ville durable, migration, économie, gouvernance, Lo Fu-chen, Marcotullio Peter J.
<b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
</div>
In Globalization and the Sustainability of Cities in the Asia-Pacific Region, scholars from around the region analyse the impacts of globalisation on cities in the Asia-Pacific. This collection of essays forms a useful, comprehensive and ambitious study, focusing on the region's specific urban concerns and on broader theoretical issues surrounding social and environmental conditions in major metropolitan centres.<br />
<br />
The first part of the book examines globalisation, foreign direct investment, international migration, and the question of cities and their changing patterns and meanings. The second part focuses on particular types of cities: Tokyo, Seoul and Taipei are post industrial capital exporting cities; Hong Kong and Singapore are cited as borderless cities; while Shanghai, Jabotabek and Bangkok are examined in terms of having very high globalisation driven growth but also have become highly polluted environments. The final section focuses on amenity cities, where Sydney and Vancouver are the two cases examined. These chapters demonstrate how environmental awareness can be part of urban growth and provide evidence that globalization is not promoting urban environmental and social sustainability.<br />
<br />
Globalization and the Sustainability of Cities in the Asia-Pacific Region demonstrates the growing interconnections among cities in the region that have come about as a result of globalization. It raises implications for the study of social and environmental conditions as well as economic growth in cities. Sustainable urban development requires more than good management and local politics; increasingly, it demands national, regional and global interventions.</div>
</div>
<b>Contents : </b></div>
</div>
Introduction - Peter J. Marcotullio and Fu-chen Lo</div>
Globalization and urban transformation in the Asia Pacific region - Fu-chen Lo and Peter J. Marcotullio</div>
FDI in Asia in boom and bust - Sung Woong Hong</div>
International migration, urbanization, and globalization in the Asia Pacific region : A preliminary framework for policy analysis - Terry G. McGee and Chung-Tong Wu</div>
The impact of globalization and issues of metropolitan planning in Tokyo - Tetsuo Kidokoro, Takashi Onishi, and Peter J. Marcotullio</div>
Globalization and the sustainability of cities in the Asia Pacifc region : The case of Seoul - Won-yong Kwon</div>
Urban population in Taiwan and the growth of the Taipei metropolitan area - Ching-lung Tsay</div>
Increasing globalization and the growth of the Hong Kong extended metropolitan region - Victor F. S. Sit</div>
Singapore : Global city and service hub - Chia Siow Yue</div>
Globalization and the sustainable development of Shanghai - Ning Yuemin</div>
Globalization and the sustainability of Jabotabek, Indonesia - Budhy T. S. Soegijoko and B. S. Kusbiantoro</div>
The extended Bangkok region : Globalization and sustainability - Sauwalak Kittiprapas</div>
Globalization and the sustainability of cities in the Asia Pacific region : The case of Sydney - Peter A. Murphy and Chung-Tong Wu</div>
From village on the edge of the rainforest to Cascadia : Issues in the emergence of a liveable subglobal world city - Terry G. McGee</div>
Globalization and the sustainability of cities in the Asia Pacific region - Peter J. Marcotullio</div>
</div>
<b>Fu-chen Lo</b> is principal research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University, Tokyo.</div>
<b>Peter J. Marcutullio </b>is Distinguished Lecturer at Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY).</div>
</div>
NC
United Nations University Press
2001
505
Ouvrage
http://books.google.fr/books?id=r2oD8mc3IcsC&printsec=frontcover
Footprint : Mapping urban complexity in an Asian context
, cartographie, réseaux, déplacements, logement, développement urbain, paysage urbain, analyse spatiale, China, Chine, Japan, Japon, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Inde, Asia, Asie, Bracken Gregory, Sohn Heidi
<b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
</div>
The second issue of Footprint aims at reuniting two themes which are receiving a great deal of attention in recent times: Asia’s extraordinary urban growth, and the problematique of mapping highly complex urban environments. The 21st century, forecasted by many as the ‘Pacific Century’, brings to the fore the region's economic, social, political and cultural changes, wide-ranging in their manifestation and far-reaching in their consequence. All of these factors are inscribed in the urban environment. In a region where a population of one million constitutes a small settlement and mega-cities such as Tokyo and Shanghai have come to dominate the global network, sheer size is itself an important issue and not just in practical terms. Then there is the apparent chaos that is actually a delicately balanced autopoeisis in cities such as Mumbai, as well as the interesting and potentially useful city-state model of Hong Kong. These conditions and rising phenomena bring important questions on the potentials and relevance of mapping to the fore.</div>
<br />
The nine contributors to this issue take these questions as their point of departure, and set out to explore some of the region’s most important or complex cities. Urban China is covered by Ruan’s interesting overview of this country’s frenzied economic boom, which he claims is ephemeral; Visser’s attempt to map Beijing –‘ the ungovernable city’ - poses timely critical questions; Qiang’s analysis of the evolution of Beijing’s movement network and the effects it has on urban function; Arkaraprasertkul’s investigation of Shanghai’s Pudong, as well as its older lilong; Karandinou & Koutsoumpos’ thought-provoking and beautifully rendered mapping project of Shanghai’s ‘other’ river, the Suzhou; Bhatia’s examination of Shanghai’s transforming housing typologies; Solomon’s investigation of the development of Hong Kong, particularly Victoria Harbour. Moving further east, Tokyo’s complexity is explored in Lucas’s short paper with a series of architectural drawings and movement notations exposing the act of inscription as a method of urban enquiry. And finally, Shannon’s informative and thorough mapping exercise of cities and landscapes in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.</div>
</div>
<b>Contents : </b></div>
</div>
Gregory Bracken and Heidi Sohn, - Mapping Urban Complexity in an Asian Context<br />
Xing Ruan - Ephemeral China/Handmade China<br />
Robin Visser - Diagnosing Beijing 2020: Mapping the Ungovernable City<br />
Qiang Sheng - Spatial ‘Complexity’: Analysis of the Evolution of Beijing’s Movement Network and its Effects on Urban Functions<br />
Non Arkaraprasertkul - Politicisation and the Rhetoric of Shanghai Urbanism<br />
Anastasia Karandinou and Leonidas Koutsoumpos - Performing Mimetic Mapping: A Non-Visualisable Map of the Suzhou River Area of Shanghai<br />
Neeraj Bhatia - The Rise of the Private: Shanghai’s Transforming Housing Typologies<br />
Jonathan D. Solomon - Caves of Steel: Mapping Hong Kong in the 21st Century<br />
Raymond Lucas - Getting Lost in Tokyo<br />
Kelly Shannon - The ‘Agency of Mapping’ in South Asia: Galle-Matara (Sri Lanka), Mumbai (India) and Khulna (Bangladesh)</div>
</div>
<b>Gregory Bracken</b> is a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS).</div>
</div>
<b>Heidi Sohn</b> is Assistant Professor in Architecture Theory at the Delft School of Design.</div>
</div>
NC
Delft School of Design
Spring 2008
119
Revue
http://www.footprintjournal.org/issues/show/mapping-urban-complexity-in-an-asian-context