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Worlding Cities WORLDING CITIES RRoy_ffirs.inddoy_ffirs.indd i 55/7/2011/7/2011 112:44:042:44:04 PPMM Studies in Urban and Social Change Published Cities after Socialism: Urban and Regional Change and The Creative Capital of Cities: Interactive Knowledge Conflict in Post-Socialist Societies of Creation and the Urbanization Economics of Gregory Andrusz, Michael Harloe and Ivan Innovation Szelenyi (eds.) Stefan Krätke The People’s Home? Social Rented Housing in Europe Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of and America Being Global Michael Harloe Ananya Roy and Aihwa Ong (eds.) Post-Fordism Place, Exclusion, and Mortgage Markets Ash Amin (ed.) Manuel B. Aalbers The Resources of Poverty: Women and Survival in a Working Bodies: Interactive Service Employment and Mexican City* Workplace Identities Mercedes Gonzalez de la Rocha Linda McDowell Free Markets and Food Riots Networked Disease: Emerging Infections in the Global City John Walton and David Seddon S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil (eds.) Fragmented Societies* Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility Enzo Mingione in an Integrating Europe Urban Poverty and the Underclass: A Reader* Adrian Favell Enzo Mingione Urban China in Transition John R. Logan (ed.) Forthcoming Getting Into Local Power: The Politics of Ethnic Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia: Neoliberalizing Minorities in British and French Cities Spaces in Developmental States Romain Garbaye Bae-Gyoon Park, Richard Child Hill and Asato Saito (eds.) Cities of Europe Yuri Kazepov (ed.) Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets Cities, War, and Terrorism Manuel B. Aalbers (ed.) Stephen Graham (ed.) Globalising European Urban Bourgeoisies?: Rooted Cities and Visitors: Regulating Tourists, Markets, and Middle Classes and Partial Exit in Paris, Lyon, City Space Madrid and Milan Lily M. Hoffman, Susan S. Fainstein, and Alberta Andreotti, Patrick Le Galès and Dennis R. Judd (eds.) Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes Understanding the City: Contemporary and Future Paradoxes Of Segregation: Urban Migration Perspectives In Europe John Eade and Christopher Mele (eds.) Sonia Arbaci The New Chinese City: Globalization and Market From Shack to House to Fortress Reform Mariana Cavalcanti John R. Logan (ed.) Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs and Privatization of Space Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a in the Post-socialist City Global Context Sonia Hirt Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice (eds.) Urban Social Movements and the State The Social Control of Cities? A Comparative Perspective Margit Mayer Sophie Body-Gendrot Fighting Gentrification Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order? Tom Slater Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen (eds.) Confronting Suburbanization: Urban Decentralization in Contemporary Urban Japan: A Sociology of Consumption Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe John Clammer Kiril Stanilov and Ludek Sykora (eds.) Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City Social Capital Formation in Immigrant Neighborhoods Linda McDowell Min Zhou *Out of print RRoy_ffirs.inddoy_ffirs.indd iiii 55/7/2011/7/2011 112:44:052:44:05 PPMM WORLDING CITIES ASIAN EXPERIMENTS AND THE ART OF BEING GLOBAL Edited by Ananya Roy and Aihwa Ong A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication RRoy_ffirs.inddoy_ffirs.indd iiiiii 55/7/2011/7/2011 112:44:052:44:05 PPMM This edition first published 2011 © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Limited Blackwell Publishing was acquired by John Wiley & Sons in February 2007. Blackwell’s publishing program has been merged with Wiley’s global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business to form Wiley-Blackwell. 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If professional advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Worlding cities : Asian experiments and the art of being global / edited by Ananya Roy and Aihwa Ong. p. cm. – (Studies in urban and social change) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4051-9277-4 (hardback) – ISBN 978-1-4051-9276-7 (paperback) 1. Urbanization–Asia. 2. Globalization–Asia. I. Roy, Ananya. II. Ong, Aihwa. HT384.A78W67 2011 307.76095–dc22 2011006751 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. This book is published in the following electronic formats: ePDFs 9781444346770; Wiley Online Library 9781444346800; ePub 9781444346787; eMobi 9781444346794 Set in 10.5/12pt Baskerville by SPi Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India 1 2011 RRoy_ffirs.inddoy_ffirs.indd iivv 55/7/2011/7/2011 112:44:052:44:05 PPMM Contents List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors viii Series Editors’ Preface xiii Preface and Acknowledgments xv Introduction Worlding Cities, or the Art of Being Global 1 Aihwa Ong Part I Modeling 27 1 Singapore as Model: Planning Innovations, Knowledge Experts 29 Chua Beng Huat 2 Urban Modeling and Contemporary Technologies of City-Building in China: The Production of Regimes of Green Urbanisms 55 Lisa Hoffman 3 Planning Privatopolis: Representation and Contestation in the Development of Urban Integrated Mega-Projects 77 Gavin Shatkin 4 Ecological Urbanization: Calculating Value in an Age of Global Climate Change 98 Shannon May Part II Inter-Referencing 127 5 Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia’s Urban Postmodern: The Case of Hong Kong 129 Helen F. Siu RRoy_ftoc.inddoy_ftoc.indd v 55/12/2011/12/2011 11:13:07:13:07 PPMM vi Contents 6 Cracks in the Façade: Landscapes of Hope and Desire in Dubai 160 Chad Haines 7 Asia in the Mix: Urban Form and Global Mobilities – Hong Kong, Vancouver, Dubai 182 Glen Lowry and Eugene McCann 8 Hyperbuilding: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Hyperspace of Sovereignty 205 Aihwa Ong Part III New Solidarities 227 9 Speculating on the Next World City 229 Michael Goldman 10 The Blockade of the World-Class City: Dialectical Images of Indian Urbanism 259 Ananya Roy 11 Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi 279 D. Asher Ghertner Conclusion Postcolonial Urbanism: Speed, Hysteria, Mass Dreams 307 Ananya Roy Index 336 RRoy_ftoc.inddoy_ftoc.indd vvii 55/12/2011/12/2011 11:13:07:13:07 PPMM List of Illustrations Figures 4.1 The entrance to the “sustainable development model village” 101 4.2 Maize stalks stacked as winter feed 116 5.1 Hong Kong white-collar workers during lunchtime 138 5.2 Hong Kong’s middle class marched for democratic reforms 141 5.3 The Bank of China building in Hong Kong 142 7.1 Concord Pacific Place, 2009 183 7.2 Emaar’s Marina Promenade development, 2009 184 7.3 Henry Tsang, Welcome to the Land of Light (detail) 186 8.1 The CCTV tower, Beijing 214 8.2 The cantilever joining the CCTV towers 217 8.3 A view of the CCTV figure poised next to an adjacent tower 223 9.1 Water worlds 228 9.2 The new Bangalore has grown by threefold since 2007 242 9.3 The writing on the wall 249 10.1 Standing still, 2000–2003 275 11.1 An artistic rendering of the DLF Emporio 280 11.2 “Our future isn’t here,” February 2007 293 11.3 “It is a proper house,” February 2007 294 11.4 “It’s like a dream for them,” November 2007 297 11.5 “We hope to live like that one day,” November 2007 298 12.1 Photographing the city, Lianhua Mountain, Shenzhen, 2010 317 12.2 Cingapura, a slum redevelopment project in São Paulo, Brazil, 2009 332 Table 4.1 The organizational structure of the China–US Center for Sustainable Development, and its implementation networks for the development of Huangbaiyu 105 RRoy_fbetw.inddoy_fbetw.indd vviiii 55/7/2011/7/2011 33:56:49:56:49 PPMM Notes on Contributors Chua Beng Huat is currently Provost Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, and Cultural Studies in Asia Research Cluster Leader at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He is founding co-executive editor of the journal Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. His most recent publications are Life is Not Complete without Shopping and edited Elections as Popular Culture in Asia. His previous books include Public Housing and Political Legitimacy: stakeholding in Singapore and Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore. D. Asher Ghertner is a Lecturer in Human Geography in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics. He recently completed his PhD in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was trained in urban geography, political ecology, and development studies.
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