Worlding cities :Asian experiments and the art of being global
Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA
Wiley-Blackwell
2011
xvii, 352 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Studies in urban and social change
Includes bibliographical references and index
Singapore as model: planning innovations, knowledge experts / Chua Beng Huat -- Urban modeling and contemporary technologies of city-building in China: the production of regimes of green urbanisms / Lisa Hoffman -- Planning privatopolis: representation and contestation in the development of urban Integrated mega-projects / Gavin Shatkin -- Ecological urbanization: calculating value in an age of global climate change / Shannon May -- Retuning a provincialized middle class in Asia's urban postmodern: the case of Hong Kong / Helen F. Siu -- Cracks in the facade: landscapes of hope and desire in Dubai / Chad Haines -- Asia in the mix: urban form and global mobilities : Hong Kong, Vancouver, Dubai / Glen Lowry and Eugene McCann -- Hyperbuilding: spectacle, speculation, and the hyperspace of sovereignty / Aihwa Ong -- Speculating on the next world city / Michael Goldman -- The blockade of the world-class city: dialectical images of Indian urbanism / Ananya Roy -- Rule by aesthetics: world-class city making in Delhi / D. Asher Ghertner -- Conclusion: postcolonial urbanism: speed, hysteria, mass dreams / Ananya Roy