Cities in Asia by and for the People / edited by Yves Cabannes, Mike Douglass, and Rita Padawangi.

• TeilnehmendeR: Padawangi, Rita,; Douglass, Mike,; Cabannes, Yves,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Asian cities (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (349 pages).

This book examines the active role of urban citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production of urban spaces that continue to encroach various neighborhoods. The collection of narratives presented here brings together research from ten different Asian cities and re-theorises the city from the perspective of ordinary people facing moments of crisis, contestations, and cooperative quests to create alternative spaces to those being produced under prevailing urban processes. The chapters accent the exercise of human agency through daily practices in the production of urban space and the intention is not one of creating a romantic or utopian vision of what a city "by and for the people" ought to be. Rather, it is to place people in the centre as mediators of city-making with discontents about current conditions and desires for a better life.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- About the Three UKNA Volumes -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures, Maps and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Cities by and for the People / Cabannes, Yves / Douglass, Mike / Padawangi, Rita -- 2. How to Prove You are Not a Squatter. Appropriating Space and Marking Presence in Jakarta / Hellman, Jörgen -- 3. Inhabitants of Spontaneous Settlements in Bangkok: Networks and Actions Changing the Contemporary Metropolis / Gerbeaud, Fanny -- 4. Collaborative Urban Farming Networks in Bangkok. Promoting Collective Gardens and Alternative Markets as Theatres of Social Action / Boossabong, Piyapong -- 5. The Struggle to Create Alternative Urban Spaces. An Attempt by a Theatre Group in Hong Kong / Yip, Ngai Ming -- 6. Making the Music Scene, Making Singapore. Jumping Spatio-Sonic Scales in a Southeast Asian City-State / Ferzacca, Steve -- 7. Connecting with Society and People through 'Art Projects' in an Era of Personalization / Koizumi, Motohiro -- 8. Activating Alternatives in Public Market Trade. The Resilience of Urban Fresh Food Provisioning in Baguio, the Philippines / Milgram, B. Lynne -- 9. From Street Hawkers to Public Markets. Modernity and Sanitization Made in Hong Kong / Marinelli, Maurizio -- 10. Street Vending from the Right to the City Approach. The Appropriation of Bhadra Plaza / Colin, Lila Oriard -- 11. Surviving Existence through a Built Form. The Advent of the Daseng Sario / Susilo, Cynthia R. / De Meulder, Bruno -- 12. Ethnic Place-Making in Cosmopolis. The Case of Yeonbeon Village in Seoul / Cho, Myung-Rae -- Index