Title & Author:

Urban Asias : essays on futurity past and present / Tim Bunnell, Daniel P.S. Goh (eds.) ; [preface, Tim Bunnell, Daniel P.S. Goh ; introduction, Tim Bunnell ; contributors, Tim Bunnell, André Sorensen, Daniel P.S. Goh [and 27 others]].

Publication:

Berlin : Jovis, [2018]
©2018

Description:

319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
introduction: Futurity and urban Asias / Tim Bunnell -- I. Futures past. Future visions of Tokyo that mattered: utopian concepts and unanticipated outcomes / André Sorensen ; Engineering socialist futures: on the technological worlding of Vinh City, Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel ; A genealogy of Phnom Penh's White building: from modern minimal housing unit to reimagining of alternative urban futures / Pen Sereypagna -- II. Pastness for the future. The spectral past for an aspirational future: the case of Dhaka's Temporal and spatial other / Tabassum Zaman ; Envisioning future pasts: heritage and emergent activism in postcolonial Macau and Hong Kong / Cecilia L. Chu ; Rural aspirations in urban Vietnam: the city as a means to an end / Jamie Gillen -- III. Infrastructures of future-making. Planning mega futures in South-Central Asia: infrastructures "contingent" utopia / Nausheen H. Anwar ; Hindu extrastatecraft? coding the future Hindu, or the infrastructural inertia of Indian urbanism / D. Asher Ghertner ; Planning, design, and maintenance of Jakarta's future sanitation infrastructures / Indrawan Prabaharyaka ; No future here: urbanization and hope in Thailand / Eli Elinoff -- IV. Relocating futurity. Futures elsewhere: African student migrants in China / Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho ; Another city is possible!: the urban social forum in Indonesia / John Taylor ; Geographies of futures and Singapore's technopreneurship aspirations / Zane Kripe ; Capitalizing on the future: negotiating planned urbanization in South India / Carol Upadhya -- V. Whose futurity?. "It's hard to have any mission for the future because they don't pay": aspirations and realities in India's Silicon Valley / Rebecca Bowers ; Reconfiguring rural aspirations through urban resettlement: navigating futurity after the 2010 eruption of Mount Merapi, Indonesia / Michelle Ann Miller ; Excavating the ruins of aspirational urban futures in Bukit Duri, Jakarta / Rita Padawangi ; Partial Kuala Lumpur: ethnicity, class, sexuality, and protest / Julian C.H, Lee, Joseph N. Goh, Ani R. Landau-Ward, Richard J. Sutcliffe -- VI. Doing urban futures. from corporate globopolis to progressive cities in Asia: alternative futures for planetary urbanization with reference to Seoul / Mike Douglass ; Excavating the future in Shenzhen / Mary Ann O'Donnell ; Methodological musings. trawling Singapore's urban religious landscapes / Vineeta Sinha -- VII. Asia in new geographies of theory. Planetary or cosmic?: reflections on the urban and the religious in Asia / Peter van der Veer ; Twenty-first century Asian urban imaginaries and the Longue Durée: an antipodean perspective / Trevor Hogan ; The thoroughgoing urbanization of East and Southeast Asia revisited / Gavin W. Jones ; Conclusion: Reflections on urban agency / Daniel P.S. Goh.

ISBN:

9783868594560 (paperback)
3868594566 (paperback)

Subject:

City planning Asia.
Urbanization Asia.
Urban ecology (Sociology) Asia.
Community development, Urban Asia.
Cities and towns Growth Social aspects Asia.
Urbanisation Asie.
Écologie urbaine Asie.
Développement communautaire urbain Asie.
Villes Croissance Aspect social Asie.
Cities and towns Growth Asia.
Cities and towns Growth Social aspects.
City planning.
Community development, Urban.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urbanization.
Megastadt
Metropolregion
Stadtforschung
Stadtplanung
Städtebau
Urbanität
Verstädterung
Asia.
Asien

Form/genre:

Essays.

Added entries:

Bunnell, Tim, editor, writer of introduction, contributor.
Goh, Daniel Pei Siong, editor, writer of preface, contributor.
Sorensen, André, 1960- contributor.
Bunnell, Tim, author of introduction, etc., editor.
Goh, Pei Siong Daniel, author of introduction, etc., editor.

Essays on futurity past and present

Holdings:

Location: Library main 300730
Call No.: BIB 246950
Status: Available