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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 thevantage point to Asian cities and citizens, Transforming Asian Cities draws attention to how Asians produce their contemporary urban practices, identities, and spaces as part of resisting, responding to, andavoiding larger global and national processes. Instead of viewing Asian cities in opposition to the Western city andusing it as the norm, this book instead opts to provincialize mainstream and traditional knowledge. It argues that the vast terrain of ordinary actors and spaces which are currently left out should be reflected in academic debates and policy decisions, and the local thinking processes that constitute these spaces need to be acknowledged, enabled, and critiqued. The individual chapters illustrate that "global" spaces are more (trans)local, traditional environments are more modern, and Asian spaces are better defined than acknowledged. The aim is to develop room for understandings of Asian cities from Asian standpoints, especially acknowledging how Asians observe, interpret, understand, and create space in their cities.


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  • Author : Nihal Perera
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Genre : Architecture
  • Total Pages : 320 pages
  • ISBN : 0415507383
  • PDF File Size : 44,8 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews

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Transforming Asian Cities

Transforming Asian Cities
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 48,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 16 June 2024
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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

Governing Cities

Governing Cities
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 28,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 25 February 2020
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This book presents the latest research on three issues of crucial importance to Asian cities: governance, livability, and sustainability. Together, these issues canvass the salient trends defining Asian urbanization and

New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities

New Economic Spaces in Asian Cities
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • File Size : 50,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 27 April 2012
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The East and Southeast Asia region constitutes the world’s most compelling theatre of accelerated globalization and industrial restructuring. Following a spectacular realization of the ‘industrialization paradigm’ and a period

Transforming Urban Economies

Transforming Urban Economies
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 22,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 15 August 2013
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Cities house the majority of the world’s population and are the dynamic centres of 21st century life, at the heart of economic, social and environmental change. They are still

Sites of Modernity

Sites of Modernity
  • Publisher : Springer
  • File Size : 29,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 28 April 2016
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This book investigates, compares and contrasts the experience of entering into and engaging in modernity and the modern era in many parts of the Asian continent. It focuses on the

Future Asian Space

Future Asian Space
  • Publisher : NUS Press
  • File Size : 21,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 January 2012
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Rapid technological, economic, social and cultural changes are transforming the idea of "Asian space." With the shift to a global economy and an urban population explosion, Asian cities have become

Re-Imagining Creative Cities in Twenty-First Century Asia

Re-Imagining Creative Cities in Twenty-First Century Asia
  • Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
  • File Size : 44,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 05 December 2021
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This book responds to the lack of Asian representation in creative cities literature. It aims to use the creative cities paradigm as part of a wider process involving first, a

Ideas of the City in Asian Settings

Ideas of the City in Asian Settings
  • Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
  • File Size : 41,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 08 March 2019
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This book explores the multiple and changing ideas, concepts, and representations that shape contemporary cities in Asia in a historical perspective. It does so by using multiple sources, objects (architecture,