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Worlding Cities
Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global
"Urban studies is marked by an ingrained tendency to consider cities in Western Europe and North America as the leading edge of global urban change. This important book draws attention to ways in which cities in Asia are experimenting with ways of being global which do not necessarily refer back to antecedents in the North Atlantic world. The book should be read not only by Asianists but by anyone who is interested in the dynamics of urban change globally." “The contributors to Worlding Cities bring new ethnographic attention to urban sites of innovation, cultural connections, and potentially transformative aspirations. They connect what is happening in cities to the ways changing relations among cities are remaking connections across national boundaries. And in the process they help to remake social science with new connections among anthropologists, geographers, and urban planners. Focused mainly on Asia, this is work that matters globally.” "A refreshing and wide-ranging volume that makes a timely contribution to debates in urban studies, geography, and planning. Rather than attempt to identify the features of a 'global' city or trace the reproduction of 'Western' forms in Asian cities, this collection examines how projects of 'worlding' are actively assembled and urban futures envisaged. It uncovers diverse routes through which cities inter-reference one another and are produced as distinctive spaces of experimentation and aspiration in contexts of uncertainty and inequality."
—Tim Bunnell, National University of Singapore
—Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council
—Colin McFarlane, Durham University, UK
Ananya Roy (Edited by), A Roy (Author), Aihwa Ong (Edited by)
9781405192774, Wiley
Hardback, published 15 July 2011
376 pages
23.9 x 16.5 x 2.7 cm, 0.689 kg
“I am hopeful that this collection, along with others of its kind, will inspire new lines of research and theorisation that will help arrest the actual realities of cities in an era of planetary urbanisation.” (Urban Studies, 1 February 2015)
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.
List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors viii Series Editors’ Preface xiii Preface and Acknowledgments xv Introduction Worlding Cities, or the Art of Being Global 1 Part I Modeling 27 1 Singapore as Model: Planning Innovations, Knowledge Experts 29 2 Urban Modeling and Contemporary Technologies of City-Building in China: The Production of Regimes of Green Urbanisms 55 3 Planning Privatopolis: Representation and Contestation in the Development of Urban Integrated Mega-Projects 77 4 Ecological Urbanization: Calculating Value in an Age of Global Climate Change 98 Part II Inter-Referencing 127 5 Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia's Urban Postmodern: The Case of Hong Kong 129 6 Cracks in the Façade: Landscapes of Hope and Desire in Dubai 160 7 Asia in the Mix: Urban Form and Global Mobilities – Hong Kong, Vancouver, Dubai 182 8 Hyperbuilding: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Hyperspace of Sovereignty 205 Part III New Solidarities 227 9 Speculating on the Next World City 229 10 The Blockade of the World-Class City: Dialectical Images of Indian Urbanism 259 11 Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi 279 Conclusion Postcolonial Urbanism: Speed, Hysteria, Mass Dreams 307 Index 336
Aihwa Ong
Chua Beng Huat
Lisa Hoffman
Gavin Shatkin
Shannon May
Helen F. Siu
Chad Haines
Glen Lowry and Eugene McCann
Aihwa Ong
Michael Goldman
Ananya Roy
D. Asher Ghertner
Ananya Roy
Subject Areas: Geography [RG]
