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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.