Worlding cities : Asian experiments and the art of being global /: Asian experiments and the art of being global. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ananya Roy, Aihwa Ong.
• Other Names: Roy, Ananya; Ong, Aihwa
• Contents: 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; Aihwa Ong Part I Modeling 27 1 Singapore as Model: Planning Innovations, Knowledge Experts 29; Chua Beng Huat 2 Urban Modeling and Contemporary Technologies of City-Building in China: The Production of Regimes of Green Urbanisms 55; Lisa Hoffman 3 Planning Privatopolis: Representation and Contestation in the Development of Urban Integrated Mega-Projects 77; Gavin Shatkin 4 Ecological Urbanization: Calculating Value in an Age of Global Climate Change 98; Shannon May Part II Inter-Referencing 127 5 Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia's Urban Postmodern: The Case of Hong Kong 129; Helen F. Siu 6 Cracks in the Façade: Landscapes of Hope and Desire in Dubai 160; Chad Haines; 7 Asia in the Mix: Urban Form and Global Mobilities – Hong Kong, Vancouver, Dubai 182; Glen Lowry and Eugene McCann 8 Hyperbuilding: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Hyperspace of Sovereignty 205; Aihwa Ong Part III New Solidarities 227 9 Speculating on the Next World City 229; Michael Goldman 10 The Blockade of the World-Class City: Dialectical Images of Indian Urbanism 259; Ananya Roy 11 Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi 279; D. Asher Ghertner Conclusion Postcolonial Urbanism: Speed, Hysteria, Mass Dreams 307; Ananya Roy Index 336
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (376 pages)
• Subjects: 307.76095; Urbanization -- Asia; Globalization -- Asia
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781444346787
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