ABOUT THIS BOOK
At a time when intense dynamics of urban development of Asian cities puzzle and disorient, Ideas of the City in Asian Settings offers knowledge about the concepts, representations, and ideas that lie beneath the historical and contemporary production of cities in Asia, in order to deepen our understanding of the processes and meanings of urban development in the continent. The book sheds more light on the vast array of rules and innovations and aspirations that make cities into complex objects that are continuously ‘in the making’. Because Asian cities have experienced unprecedented dynamics of urban development during the last fifty years, they are considered as crucial places to question the perspectives that multiple actors project onto changing urban environments, as well as the evolution of the role of cities in globalisation.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Henco Bekkering is Emeritus Professor of Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He has been Netherlands Visiting Professor at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, USA, and Visiting Scholar at the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR China.Dr. Adèle Esposito was trained as an architect and urban planner. She is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS AUSser). Her research deals with the uses of cultural heritage in the contemporary development of Southeast Asian cities.Dr. Charles Goldblum is Emeritus Professor in Urban Planning at the University of Paris 8 and former director of the French Institute of Planning. Being a specialist in Southeast Asian urban studies and the author of several papers and books in this realm, he is currently associated researcher at AUSser/IPRAUS Research Laboratory (CNRS/ENSAPB).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of ContentsForewordChapter 1 IntroductionAdèle Esposito, Henco Bekkering, Charles GoldblumChapter 2 The Spectral Coloniality of Calcutta's OchterlonySayanheb ChowdhuryChapter 3 'Centering' the City: the Upattasanti Pagoda as Symbolic Space in Myanmar's New Capital of NaypyidawDonald M. SeekinsChapter 4 Transitions: The Form and Meaning of the 'New Philippine City' After 1898Ian MorleyChapter 5 Global dynamics and tropes of place: 'touristed' spaces and city-making in MacauSheyla S. ZandonaiChapter 6 A City for All: Perspectives from Colonial CalcuttaAnindita GhoshChapter 7 A World Garden City in the New Millennium: Chengdu at the Crossroads of Verbal Representation and Global VisionKenny K.K. NgChapter 8 Delhi Incognita: Challenging Delhi's Collective Memory by Writing about Illegal Settlements and EvictionJohanna HahnChapter 9 Physical Manifestation of Political Ideologies in Ali Sadi-kin's Jakarta (1966-1977)Pawda F. TjoaChapter 10 Religious Gentrification: Islam and the Remaking of Urban Place in JakartaHew Wai WengChapter 11 Invisible Technologies and Loud Narratives: A Critical Deconstruction of the Songdo 'Smart City' Project in KoreaChamee YangChapter 12 Changing ideas of Hanoi: state, citizens, marketsHans SchenkChapter 13 ConclusionAdèle Esposito, Henco Bekkering, Charles Goldblum