Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being GlobalISBN: 978-1-4051-9276-7
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376 pages
August 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
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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