Transforming Asian Cities : Intellectual impasse, Asianizing space, and emerging translocalities.

While there is no lack of studies on Asian cities, the majority focus on financial districts, poverty, the slum, tradition, tourism, and pollution, and use the modern, affluent, and transforming Western city as the reference point. This vast Asian empirical presence is not complemented by a theoreti...

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Main Author: Perera, Nihal
Other Authors: Tang, Wing-Shing
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
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520 |a While there is no lack of studies on Asian cities, the majority focus on financial districts, poverty, the slum, tradition, tourism, and pollution, and use the modern, affluent, and transforming Western city as the reference point. This vast Asian empirical presence is not complemented by a theoretical presence; academic discourses overlook common and basic urban processes, particularly the production of space, place, and identity by ordinary citizens. Switching the vantage point to Asian cities and citizens, Transforming Asian Cities draws attention to how Asians produce their contemporary urb. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Seoul : a Korean capital / Sharon Hong -- Rajadamnoen Avenue : Thailand's transformative path towards modern polity / Koompong Noobanjong -- Public art, urban renewal, and the construction of a national history : the Revive Manila program and the new Manileno campaign / Tessa Guazon -- An unexpected urban renewal practice : the emergence of a multi-cultural historic plaza in Taipei / Huey-Jiun Wang -- Critical vernacularism : a view of architecture from the places of production / Nihal Perera -- Housing rights and citizenship of rural migrants in urban China : the case of Yuanhenong, Shanghai / Zhao Yeqin -- Ordinary lives in extraordinary Cyberabad / Diganta Das -- Street vending in Indonesian cities : their characteristics and activities in Yogyakarta / Deden Rukmana and Djarot Purbadi -- Perceptions of tenure security in a squatter settlement in Lahore, Pakistan / Fatima Wajahat -- The struggle for living space : ethnicity, housing, and the politics of urban renewal in Japan's squatter areas / Takuya Motooka, Toshio Mizuuchi -- Contests over community : a community organization in Hong Kong / Leung, Hon-Chu -- Traversing the city : some gendered questions of access in Mumbai / Shilpa Phadke -- Indianizing the neighborhood unit : the Jawaharnagar plan / Sanjeev Vidyarti -- Planning and self-organizing : the case of small towns in Sri Lanka / Jagath Munasinghe -- Niche authority in urbanized villages : bottom-up codetermination in megacity China / Sonia Schoon. 
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