Bracken Asian Cities: Colonial to Global

Colonial to Global
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-90-485-2824-0
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 376 Seiten

Reihe: Asian Cities

When people look at success stories among postcolonial nations, the focus almost always turns to Asia, where many cities in former colonies have become key locations of international commerce and culture. This book brings together a stellar group of scholars from a number of disciplines to explore the rise of Asian cities, including Singapore, Macau, Hong Kong, and more. Dealing with history, geography, culture, architecture, urbanism, and other topics, the book attempts to formulate a new understanding of what makes Asian cities such global leaders.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bracken, Gregory

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Asian Cities: Colonial to Global
Gregor y Bracken

Part One: Post-colonialism
1 Gambling, City, Nation
Popular Illegality and Nation Building in Singapore, 1960s-1980s
Kah-Wee Lee

2 The Death of the Pasar Malam
The Counterpoint to Development in the Singapore Story
Elmo Gonzaga

3 Artifice and Authenticity
Postcolonial Urbanism in Macau
Thomas Daniell

4 Urban Art Images and the Concerns of Mainlandization in Hong Kong
Minna Valjakka

Part Two: Networks
5 Honkon Nippo and Hong Kong-Japan Relations
Re-examining the Geopolitical Position of Colonial Hong Kong in East Asia before the End of World War II
Wilson Wai Shing Lee

6 Chain Reactions
Japanese Colonialism and Global Cosmopolitanism in East Asia
Faye Yuan Kleeman

7 Old Networks with New Users
Mapping Global Mobility between Dongguan and Hong Kong
Max Hirsh

8 Asian Cities in the Global Maritime Network since the Late Nineteenth Century
César Ducruet

9 Back to the Future
Feasible Cost-Sharing Co-operation in the Straits of Malacca
Senia Febrica

Part Three: Cities and Buildings
10 Rallying Towards the Nation
Theatre of Nation Building in Post-colonial Dhaka
Kishwar Habib and Bruno De Meulder

11 Selectively Connected
New Songdo and the Production of Global Space
Bridget Martin

12 The Vernacular and the Spectacular
Urban Identity and Architectural Heritage in Southeast Asian Cities
Rita Padawangi

13 Heritage in Times of Rapid Transformation
A Tale of Two Cities – Yangon and Hanoi
William Logan

14 Small-scale, Bottom-up
Cosmopolitan Linkages Reglobalizing Shanghai’s City Centre
Ying Zhou

Conclusion
Global Cities in Asia
Gregor y Bracken

Contributors
Bibliography
Index
Figures

Über Autor(innen)

Bracken, Gregory
Gregory Bracken is Assistant Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at TU Delft and one of the co-founders of Footprint, the journal dedicated to architecture theory. From 2009 to 2015 he was a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Leiden where he co-founded the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA). His publications include The Shanghai Alleyway House: A Vanishing Urban Vernacular (2013), Asian Cities: Colonial to Global (2015), Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West (2020), and Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West (2019).

Bracken Gregory:
Gregory Bracken is Assistant Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at TU Delft. His publications include ‘Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West’, ‘Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West’, ‘Asian Cities: Colonial to Global’ and ‘The Shanghai Alleyway House: A Vanishing Urban Vernacular’.