Reducing Urban Poverty in the Global South
villes du Sud, Asie, Afrique, développement urbain, pauvreté, inégalités sociales, géographie urbaine
Urban areas in the Global South now house most of the world’s urban population and are projected to house almost all its increase between now and 2030. There is a growing recognition that the scale of urban poverty has been overlooked – and that it is increasing both in numbers and in the proportion of the world’s poor population that live and work in urban areas.
This is the first book to review the effectiveness of different approaches to reducing urban poverty in the Global South. It describes and discusses the different ways in which national and local governments, international agencies and civil society organizations are seeking to reduce urban poverty. Different approaches are explored, for instance; market approaches, welfare, rights-based approaches and technical/professional support. The book also considers the roles of clientelism and of social movements. Case studies illustrate different approaches and explore their effectiveness.
Reducing Urban Poverty in the Global South also analyses the poverty reduction strategies developed by organized low-income groups especially those living in informal settlements. It explains how they and the federations or networks they have formed have demonstrated new approaches that have challenged adverse political relations and negotiated more effective support. Local and national governments and international agencies can become far more effective at addressing urban poverty at scale by, as is proposed in this book, working with and supporting the urban poor and their organizations.
David Satterthwaite is a Senior Fellow at IIED and a Visiting Professor at the Development Planning Unit, University College, London, UK.
Diana Mitlin is an economist and social development specialist working at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), and a Professor at the University of Manchester, UK, working at the Global Urban Research Centre, the Institute for Development Policy and Management and the Brooks World Poverty Institute.
David Satterthwaite
Diana Mitlin
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415624640/
Routledge
2014
306
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Ouvrage
Minorités, métropoles, mondialisations
minorités, métropoles, mondialisation, migrants aisés, homosexuels, Europe, Asie, Amérique latine
N° 154, 2013/3 de la revue Espaces et sociétés.
Le concept de minorité a d'abord désigné les migrants pauvres arrivant dans une ville qui les accueille bien mal. Ayant tendance à se regrouper, ils sont pris dans la tension entre la fidélité à leurs origines et l'adaptation à la société d'accueil. Avec la mondialisation, ce concept s'est élargi. Dans les métropoles du Nord et du Sud, il s'applique aussi à des migrants aisés, aux homosexuels, etc. Ce dossier analyse la structuration de minorités, anciennes et nouvelles, en Europe, en Asie et en Amérique latine.
Sommaire :
- Maurice Blanc et al., Éditorial
- Ariela Epstein, « Des tambours sur les murs » : la mise en image des Afro-descendants de Montevideo
- Colin Giraud, Le « Village Gai » de Montréal. Une aventure urbaine minoritaire
- Didier Desponds et Pierre Bergel, Vers un ethnoburb à la française ? Ancrages et diffusions des étrangers acquéreurs de biens immobiliers en Île-de-France
- Hossam Adly, Fonctionnaires internationaux à Genève : le poids du privilège
- Gwenn Pulliat, Les migrants à Hanoï : Construction politique d'un groupe social dominé
- Yoann Morvan, Géopolitique et métropolisation, le rôle de « minorité intermédiaire » des Juifs d'Istanbul
Hors dossier
- Emilia Schijman, Écrire aux HLM, se plaindre à l'État. Quelques figures de la protestation dans un quartier populaire
- Monique Selim, Fluctuations de jeunes chinois autour d'une destruction urbaine à Canton
Collectif
ERES/Cairn
2013
200
FR
Livraison de revue
http://www.cairn.info/numero.php?REVUE=espaces-et-societes&ANNEE=2013&NUMERO=3
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
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‘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 />
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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>
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<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>
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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
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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>
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<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>
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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
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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 />
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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 />
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<b>Gavin Shatkin</b> is Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.</div>
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Gavin Shatkin
22 July 2010
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/publication_details.asp?pubtypeid=AU&pubid=1679
Zoom sur Shanghai
Shanghai, Asie, Chine, mégalopole, exposition universelle, Bund, Pudong, World Financial Center, gratte-ciel, Tian'anmen
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A la fin de chaque mois, les Urbanités “zooment” sur une ville ayant valeur de laboratoire urbain dans le monde. Destination Shanghai cette semaine, où s’ouvre le 1er mai la 75e Exposition universelle. Cette exposition sera la plus grande, la plus chère, la plus ambitieuse de toutes les expositions universelles. La ville de Shanghai a déployé des efforts incroyables pour l’occasion. Elle a construit le plus gros hub de transport au monde, un nouveau terminal d’aéroport, des centaines de kilomètres de voies de métro et d’autoroutes, elle a démoli et rebâti des quartiers entiers. Le plus symbolique d’entre eux est sans aucun doute celui du Bund, le long de la rivière Huangpu, avec ses grands immeubles coloniaux, témoins du formidable essor de la ville dans les années 20 et 30. Le Bund brille d’un tout nouvel éclat, complètement rénové, et doté d’une statue en bronze, une réplique du taureau que l’on peut voir à New York sur Wall Street. Le même artiste a livré celui de Shanghai, mais il l’a fait deux fois plus grand que son petit frère américain. Et la bête fait face - de l’autre côté de la rivière - à la nouvelle cité de Pudong, les 101 étages du World Financial Center et autres gigantesques gratte-ciel. Il s’en est construit 4000 ces 20 dernières années.</div>
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<b>Reportages :</b></div>
Zoom sur Shanghai (1/5) : la démesure des villes chinoises</a><br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://urbanites.rsr.ch/blog/zoom-sur-shanghai-25-slogan-et-impasse-de-l%E2%80%99exposition-universelle/">Zoom sur Shanghai (2/5) : slogan et impasse de l'Exposition universelle</a></div>
Zoom sur Shanghai (3/5) : un si petit pavillon suisse</a></div>
Zoom sur Shanghai (4/5) : de la première Exposition universelle de Londres à celle de Shanghai, un curieux mimétisme<br />
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Zoom sur Shanghai (5/5) : l'Exposition universelle de Tian'anmen</a></div>
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Emissions radio
Avril 2010
http://urbanites.rsr.ch/
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
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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>
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Lexington Books
October 2011
332
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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
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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>
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Routledge
May 2011
344
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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
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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>
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University of Pennsylvania Press
December 2010
384
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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>
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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>
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<b>Naoki Yoshihara </b>is a Professor of Sociology in the Graduate School of Arts and Letters at Tohoku University, Japan.</div>
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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>
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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 />
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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 />
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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>
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<b>Contents : </b></div>
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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>
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<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>
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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
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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
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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>
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<b>Neeraj Prasad </b>is Lead Carbon Finance Specialist and deputy to the Manager of the Carbon Finance Unit at the World Bank.</div>
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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
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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
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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>
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Multiple authors
University of Seoul
1997
139
Revue
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