Cecilia Chu (58 results)

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Trade Paperback. Condition: New. Home to more city dwellers than any other continent, and the locus of many of the world's most populous metropolitan areas, Asia is moving to center stage in popular and academic debates about global urban futures. This volume comprises essays examining the intersections of the urban and futurity. While attentive to emergent forms of urban Asia, contributors also examine futures past, the afterlives of historical projects and archaeologies of the future. Many essays provide ethnographic and field-based empirical insights into emerging urban cultures, while others explore the theoretical and political implications of the urban future in Asia. Essayists include Asher Ghertner (Rutgers University), Christina Schwenkel (University of California, Riverside) and Andre Sorensen (University of Toronto).…

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Paperback. Condition: New. The Speculative City explores property speculation as a key aspect of financialization and its role in reshaping the contemporary built environment. The book offers a series of case studies that encompass a range of cities whose urban fabrics have undergone significant transformation in recent years. While the forms of these developments share many similarities, their trajectories and social outcomes were contingent upon existing planning and policy frameworks in addition to the historical roles assumed by the state and the private sector in housing and welfare provision. By paying close attention to the forces and actors involved in property development, this book underscores that the built environment has played an integral part in shaping new values and collective aspirations, while also facilitating the spread of financial logics in urban governance. The essays in this collection show that these dynamics represent a larger shift of politics and culture in the ongoing production of urban space and prompt reflections on future trajectories of finance-led property speculation.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2022 Amsterdam University Press hardcover edition. Unread copy in very good condition. Contents: (1) Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia: An Introduction, (2) Walking Tours and Community Heritage in Singapore: Civic Activism in the Making in Queenstown & Geylang, (3) Resistance and Resilience: A Case Study of Rebuilding the Choi Yuen Village in Hong Kong, (4) Urban Planning, Public Interest, and Spatial Justice: A Case Study of the Lo-Sheng Sanatorium Preservation Movement in Taipei, (5) Placemaking as Social Learning: Taipei's Open Green Programme as Pedagogical Civic Urbanism, (6) Hong Kong's Urban Renewal Fund: A Step towards Citizen-driven Placemaking?, (7) Re-emerging Civic Urbanism: The Evolving State-Civil Society Relations in Community Building in Seoul, (8) A Shifting Paradigm of Urban Regeneration in Seoul? A Case Study of Citizen Participation in Haebangchon Urban Regeneration Project, (9) Building Communities through Neighbourhood-based Participatory Planning in Singapore, (10) Beyond the Sunday Spectacle: Foreign Domestic Workers and Emergent Civic Urbanisms in Hong Kong, (11) Holding Space, Making Place: Nurturing Emergent Solidarities within New Food Systems in Singapore, (12) Conclusion: Civic Urbanisms and Urban Governance in Asia and Beyond. …

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