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    Urban Asias : essays on futurity past and present / Tim Bunnell / Daniel P.S. Goh (eds.).

    • Title:Urban Asias : essays on futurity past and present / Tim Bunnell / Daniel P.S. Goh (eds.).
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    • Variant Title:Essays on futurity past and present
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Bunnell, Tim, editor, author of preface, author.
      Goh, Daniel Pei Siong, editor, author of preface, author.
    • Published/Created:Berlin : Jovis, [2018]
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:City planning--Asia.
      Urbanization--Asia.
      Urban ecology (Sociology)--Asia.
      Community development, Urban--Asia.
      Cities and towns--Growth--Social aspects--Asia.
    • Description:319 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
    • ISBN:9783868594560 paperback
      3868594566 paperback
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
      Futurity and Urban Asias / Tim Bunnell
      I. Futures Past
      2. Future Visions of Tokyo that Mattered
      Utopian Concepts and Unanticipated Outcomes / Andre Sorensen
      3. Engineering Socialist Futures
      On the Technological Worlding of Vinh City, Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel
      4. Genealogy of Phnom Penh's White Building
      From Modern Minimal Housing Unit to Reimagining of Alternative Urban Futures / Pen Sereypagna
      II. Pastness for the Future
      5. Spectral Past for an Aspirational Future
      Case of Dhaka's Temporal and Spatial Other / Tabassum Zaman
      6. Envisioning Future Pasts
      Heritage and Emergent Activism in Postcolonial Macau and Hong Kong / Cecilia L. Chu
      7. Rural Aspirations in Urban Vietnam
      City as a Means to an End / Jamie Gillen
      III. Infrastructures of Future-making
      8. Planning Mega Futures in South-Central Asia
      Infrastructure's "Contingent" Utopia / Nausheen H. Anwar
      9. Hindu Extrastatecraft?
      Coding the Future Hindu, or the Infrastructural Inertia of Indian Urbanism / D. Asher Ghertner
      10. Planning, Design, and Maintenance of Jakarta's Future Sanitation Infrastructures / Indrawan Prabaharyaka
      11. No Future Here
      Urbanization and Hope in Thailand / Eli Elinoff
      IV. Relocating Futurity
      12. Futures Elsewhere
      African Student Migrants in China / Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho
      13. Another City is Possible!
      Urban Social Forum in Indonesia / John Taylor
      14. Geographies of Futures and Singapore's Technopreneurship Aspirations / Zane Kripe
      15. Capitalizing on the Future
      Negotiating Planned Urbanization in South India / Carol Upadhya
      V. Whose Futurity?
      16. "It's hard to have any mission for the future because they don't pay"
      Aspirations and Realities in India's Silicon Valley / Rebecca Bowers
      17. Reconfiguring Rural Aspirations through Urban Resettlement
      Navigating Futurity after the 2010 Eruption of Mount Merapi, Indonesia / Michelle Ann Miller
      18. Excavating the Ruins of Aspirational Urban Futures in Bukit Duri, Jakarta / Rita Padawangi
      19. Partial Kuala Lumpur
      Ethnicity, Class, Sexuality, and Protest / Richard J. Sutcliffe
      VI. Doing Urban Futures
      20. From Corporate Globopolis to Progressive Cities in Asia
      Alternative Futures for Planetary Urbanization with Reference to Seoul / Mike Douglass
      21. Excavating the Future in Shenzhen / Mary Ann O'Donnell
      22. Methodological Musings
      Trawling Singapore's Urban Religious Landscapes / Vineeta Sinha
      VII. Asia in New Geographies of Theory
      23. Planetary or Cosmic?
      Reflections on the Urban and the Religious in Asia / Peter van der Veer
      24. Twenty-first Century Asian Urban Imaginaries and the Longue Duree
      Antipodean Perspective / Trevor Hogan
      25. Thoroughgoing Urbanization of East and Southeast Asia Revisited / Gavin W. Jones
      26. Conclusion
      Reflections on Urban Agency / Daniel P.S. Goh.
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