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Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global
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Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global Paperback - 2011

by Roy, Ananya [Editor]; Ong, Aihwa [Editor];

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  • Title Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global
  • Author Roy, Ananya [Editor]; Ong, Aihwa [Editor];
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA
  • Date 2011-08-14
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 230223011
  • ISBN 9781405192767 / 1405192763
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Globalization - Asia, Urbanization - Asia
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011006751
  • Dewey Decimal Code 307.760

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From the rear cover

From Dubai to Delhi and from Singapore to Shanghai, cities across Asia are sites of intense experiments with different ways of being global. This book intervenes in urban theory focused on established global cities, and instead argues that the urban globality is something that is continually being imagined, assembled, and contested. Greater Asia is a region of vibrant innovations in urban design, built forms, governance, aesthetics, and politics. Worlding Cities draws attention to diverse projects of 'worlding' and "reworlding" that draw upon local and transnational relationships. Alternative ways of being global are instantiated through practices of mobility, modeling, and speculation that inter-reference other Asian sites. As many of the essays in this book illustrate, different Asian futures are being shaped in cities, from green governmentality to eco-city, from corporate speculations to political contestations over urban development, from "world-class" city branding to demands for "world-class" services, and from sky-high hopes to dashed dreams on the ground for city-dwellers and migrants. This inter-generation and interdisciplinary group of authors offers the first serious examination of diverse actors, energies, and conditions at play in defining new worlds of inter-Asian urbanism.

About the author

Ananya Roy is Professor of City and Regional Planning and Co-Director of Global Metropolitan Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent book is Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development (2010).

Aihwa Ong is Professor of Socio-cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent publications are Privatizing China, Socialism from Afar (2008) and Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate (2010).