Ideas of the City in Asian Settings / / ed. by Henco Bekkering, Adèle Esposito, Charles Goldblum.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Bekkering, Henco,; Chowdhury, Sayandeb,; Esposito, Adèle,; Ghosh, Anindita,; Goldblum, Charles,; Hahn, Johanna,; Morley, Ian,; Ng, Kenny K.K.,; Schenk, Hans,; Seekins, Donald M.,; Tjoa, Pawda F.,; Weng, Hew Wai,; Yang, Chamee,; Zandonai, Sheyla S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bekkering, Henco,; Esposito, Adèle,; Goldblum, Charles,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Asian Cities ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) :; 114 halftones

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, planning, spaces and practices), and methods of inquiry. At a time when intense dynamics of urban development of Asian cities puzzle and disorient, Ideas of the City in Asian Settings offers knowledge about the ideas that lay beneath the historical and contemporary production of cities in Asia, in order to deepen our understanding of the processes and meanings of urban development in the continent. The book sheds more light on the vast array of rules and perspectives that make cities into complex objects that are continuously 'in the making'. Because Asian cities have experienced unprecedented dynamics of urban development during the last fifty years, they are considered as crucial places to question the aspirations that multiple actors project onto changing urban environments, as well as the evolution of the role of cities in globalisation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- 1. Introduction -- Part 1. Images and Symbols -- 2. The Spectral Coloniality of Calcutta's Ochterlony -- 3. 'Centering' the City -- 4. Transitions -- 5. Global Dynamics and Tropes of Place -- Part 2. Tales of the City -- 6. A City for All -- 7. A World Garden City in the New Millennium -- 8. Delhi Incognita -- Part 3. Political and Urban Discourses -- 9. The Physical Manifestation of Political Ideologies in Ali Sadikin's Jakarta (1966-1977) -- 10. Religious Gentrification: Islam and the Remaking of Urban Place in Jakarta -- 11. Invisible Technologies and Loud Narratives -- 12. Changing ideas of Hanoi -- 13. Conclusion -- Index