Worlding cities: Asian experiments and the art of being global

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TextSeries: Studies in Urban and Social ChangePublication details: Wiley-Blackwell 2011 ChichesterDescription: xvii, 352 pISBN:

9781405192767

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307.76095 W6

Summary: Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization. It includes important contributions from a respected group of scholars across a range of generations, disciplines, and sites of study. Describes the new theoretical framework of ‘worlding’. Substantially expands and updates the themes of capital and culture. Includes a unique collection of authors across generations, disciplines, and sites of study. Demonstrates how references to Asian power, success, and hegemony make possible urban development and limit urban politics. http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1405192763.html

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Table of Contents:

Part I Modeling
1 Singapore as Model: Planning Innovations, Knowledge Experts
2 Urban Modeling and Contemporary Technologies of City-Building in China: The Production of Regimes of Green Urbanisms
3 Planning Privatopolis: Representation and Contestation in the Development of Urban Integrated Mega-Projects
4 Ecological Urbanization: Calculating Value in an Age of Global Climate Change
Part II Inter-Referencing
5 Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia's Urban Postmodern: The Case of Hong Kong
6 Cracks in the Façade: Landscapes of Hope and Desire in Dubai
7 Asia in the Mix: Urban Form and Global Mobilities – Hong Kong, Vancouver, Dubai
8 Hyperbuilding: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Hyperspace of Sovereignty
Part III New Solidarities
9 Speculating on the Next World City
10 The Blockade of the World-Class City: Dialectical Images of Indian Urbanism
11 Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi

Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization. It includes important contributions from a respected group of scholars across a range of generations, disciplines, and sites of study. Describes the new theoretical framework of ‘worlding’. Substantially expands and updates the themes of capital and culture. Includes a unique collection of authors across generations, disciplines, and sites of study. Demonstrates how references to Asian power, success, and hegemony make possible urban development and limit urban politics.

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