- Title
- Asian Cities: Colonial to Global
- Editor
- Gregory Bracken
- Price
- € 141,00 excl. VAT
- ISBN
- 9789089649317
- Format
- Hardback
- Number of pages
- 376
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 22 - 06 - 2015
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Series
- Asian Cities
- Partner
- Category
- Urban Cultures
- Discipline
- Asian Studies
- Also available as
- eBook PDF - € 140,99
INTRODUCTION
Asian Cities: Colonial to Global
Gregory Bracken
PART ONE: POST-COLONIALISM
1 Gambling, City, Nation: Popular Illegality and Nation-Building in Singapore, 1960s-80s
Kah-Wee Lee
2 The Death of the Bazaar: The Counterpoint to Development in the Singapore Story
Elmo Gonzaga
3 Artifice and Authenticity: Postcolonial Urbanism in Macau
Thomas Daniell
4 Urban Art Images and the Concerns of Mainlandization in Hong Kong
Minna Valjakka
PART TWO: NETWORKS
5 Honkon Nippo and Hong Kong-Japan Relations: Re-examining the Geopolitical Position of Colonial Hong Kong in East Asia before the End of World War II
Wai Shing Lee
6 Chain Reactions: Japanese Colonialism and Global Cosmopolitanism in East Asia
Faye Yuan Kleeman
7 Old Networks with New Users: Mapping Global Mobility between Dongguan and Hong Kong
Max Hirsh
8 Asian Cities in the Global Maritime Network since the Late Nineteenth Century
César Ducruet
9 Back to the Future: Feasible Cost-Sharing Co-operation in the Straits of Malacca
Senia Febrica
PART THREE: CITIES AND BUILDINGS
10 Rallying Towards the Nation: Theatre of Nation-building in Postcolonial Dhaka
Kishwar Habib and Bruno De Meulder
11 Selectively Connected: New Songdo and the Production of Global Space
Bridget Martin
12 The Vernacular and the Spectacular: Urban Identity and Architectural Heritage in Southeast Asian Cities
Rita Padawangi
13 Heritage in Times of Rapid Transformation: A Tale of Two Cities - Yangon and Hanoi
William Logan
14 Small-scale, Bottom-up: Cosmopolitan Linkages Re-Globalizing Shanghai's City Centre
Ying Zhou
CONCLUSION
Global Cities in Asia
Gregory Bracken
Reviews and Features
"The book is undoubtedly a worthwhile read and students, even those familiar with the cities and the issues, will find it illuminating, educative, and largely enjoyable." -- Michael E Leary-Owhin, School of Law and Social Sciences
Gregory Bracken (ed.)
Asian Cities: Colonial to Global
When people look at success stories among postcolonial nations, the focus almost always turns to Asia, where many cities in former colonies have become key locations of international commerce and culture. This book brings together a stellar group of scholars from a number of disciplines to explore the rise of Asian cities, including Singapore, Macau, Hong Kong, and more. Dealing with history, geography, culture, architecture, urbanism, and other topics, the book attempts to formulate a new understanding of what makes Asian cities such global leaders.
Editor
Gregory Bracken
Gregory Bracken is Assistant Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at TU Delft and one of the co-founders of Footprint, the journal dedicated to architecture theory. From 2009 to 2015 he was a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Leiden where he co-founded the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA). His publications include The Shanghai Alleyway House: A Vanishing Urban Vernacular (2013), Asian Cities: Colonial to Global (2015), Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West (2020), and Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West (2019).
