ISBN:
9781134799701
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (541 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Padawangi, Rita Routledge Handbook of Urbanization in Southeast Asia
DDC:
307.760959
Abstract:
Routledge Handbook of Urbanization in Southeast Asia- Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Urbanization and the city -- Contemporary urbanization challenges in Southeast Asia -- Studying urbanization in Southeast Asia -- The book structure -- Limitations and future research -- References -- PART I: Theorizing urbanization in Southeast Asia -- Overview: theorizing urbanization in Southeast Asia -- Chapter 1: Gateways, corridors and peripheries -- Urban Southeast Asia 'discovered' -- Gateways and corridors -- Mainland Southeast Asia -- Island Southeast Asia -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Peri-urban transformations in Southeast Asia -- Encircling the countryside -- Squeezing the farmer -- Opening the peri-urban zone -- Peri-urban industrialization -- Seeking the suburban life -- Expelled by rising land values -- Migrant factory workers -- Degrading the environment -- Peri-urban governance -- Lacking planning capacity -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- References -- Chapter 3: Knowledge, creativity and the city -- Knowledge, creativity and human capital -- Knowledge and the university city -- Creativity and the city -- Towards a new theoretical architecture -- References -- Chapter 4: Aspiration in urban(izing) Southeast Asia -- Powers of movement: aspiration and mobility -- Remaking (oneself through) the city -- City landscapes and/as middle-class aspirations -- Globalizing aspirations: relationality, world-classism and the model city -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: The politics of increments in collective urban action -- Introduction: relational infrastructures -- Mimetic zones -- Practices of the incremental -- Temporal increments and acts of captivation -- Note -- References
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Chapter 6: Provisional notes on semi-urbanism -- Positioning semi-urbanism -- The banality of the kampung -- Intersectional binarism -- The invulnerability of the informal: a genealogy -- The mystery of the household -- The governance of the kampung -- Land complicity -- The new kampung? -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Note -- References -- Chapter 7: Some conceptual and methodological issues in studying urbanization in Southeast Asia -- Introduction -- Are Southeast Asian urbanization processes different? -- Urban agglomerations and MURs -- Are differences between urban and rural areas narrowing? -- Urban-rural definitions -- City size distributions -- Alternative ways of defining urban agglomerations -- Ways of characterizing the growth of MURs -- Key approaches for the future -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8: Challenges and opportunities of comparative urbanism: the case of Brunei-Miri and Singapore-Iskandar Malaysia -- Introduction -- Comparative urbanism: current debates -- Empirical background -- Challenges: comparing what? -- Opportunities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9: Debilitating city-centricity: urbanization and urban-rural hybridity in Southeast Asia -- City-centric urbanization -- Critiques of intensive and extensive urbanization -- Desakota 'agency' -- Methodological prospects -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- PART II: Migration, networks and identities -- Overview: migration, networks and identities -- Chapter 10: Longing and belonging in a global city: skilled migrants in Singaporean urban space -- East Coast Park on Sunday afternoon -- Urban longing and belonging -- Migrant destination -- Multi-cultural/ethnic/racial nation -- "Ordinary" Singapore: the heartlands -- Global city in a garden -- The heart's desire -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References
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Chapter 11: Marginalized migrants and urbanization in Southeast Asia -- Introduction -- The case study of Singapore -- Structured inequalities -- Bifurcated labor policies and legal structures -- Debt bondage and wage management -- Barriers towards access to resolving inequalities and injustice -- Gendering of inequalities -- Othering -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 12: Women workers and urban imagination in Indonesia's industrial town -- The workers' urban neighborhood -- The factory -- The urban home -- Labor studies in Indonesia and the workers' urban neighborhood -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 13: God's many faces: religious pluralism in urban Southeast Asia -- Introduction -- A note on methodology -- The colonial times -- Religious explosions and 20th-century globalization: charismatic and Balik-Islam movements -- Urbanization and religious migrants -- Globalization, dislocation and homelessness -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 14: Between tradition and modernity: the ritual politics of indigenous cultural heritage in urbanizing Sabah, East Malaysia -- Introduction -- Decline of ritual traditions in the face of modernization and urbanization -- The commodification and touristification of ritual traditions -- Revival of ritual traditions in the aftermath of 2016 Mount Kinabalu earthquake -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- Chapter 15: Networks beyond the nation: urban histories of northern Thailand and beyond -- Introduction -- Networks and nations -- Urban cultures and urban networks -- The networks strike back -- Conclusion: urban cultures in the colonial margins -- References -- PART III: Development and discontents -- Overview: development and discontents -- Chapter 16: Mega-regionalization of a nation: Philippine mega-regions and the impulse to globalize -- Mega-regions as modes of urban transformation
Abstract:
Planning development regions and carving new urban spaces -- Nodes of global-urban accumulation: the rise of SEZs -- Emergent mega-regions -- Mega-regional underbelly: dispossession, resistance -- Mega-regional challenges -- References -- Chapter 17: Kota Kinabalu: checkered past, present challenges, bright future? -- A state apart -- A city on the sea -- The impact of public-private sector cleavages on urban mobility and housing -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 18: Transforming Kuala Lumpur: hybrid urbanisms in motion -- Introduction -- Squatter kampungs and the world class city -- Hyperbuilding, consumption, and heritage enclaves -- Mutating ethnoscapes and contested urbanisms -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 19: From socialist modernism to market modernism? Master-planned developments in post-reform Vietnam -- Introduction -- Modernization as state-craft and as moral admonition -- Vietnam before Doi moi: socialist modernism and state-led social engineering -- Doi moi: modernization and global integration -- NUAs as state-led modernization project -- Urban designs as social markers -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 20: Peri-urbanization in the Surabaya metropolitan area: an industrial transformation perspective -- Introduction -- Spatial transformation in the SMA -- Industrial growth and expansion -- Planning support and facilitation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 21: Contesting development: youth and industrial labor in peri-urban Banten, Indonesia -- Introduction -- A peri-urban area in flux -- Expectations about education, work and futures -- Economic changes at Krakatau Steel -- Changing recruitment practices and standards for education and training -- Bottlenecks: educated youth and the nexus between school and work -- Locals versus migrants? -- Conclusion -- Notes
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References -- Chapter 22: Transportation development and urbanization in the Bangkok metropolitan region -- Introduction -- Background and organizational context -- Pre-motorization and early motorization period -- Post-war expansion -- Rapid motorization and hyper congestion -- The contemporary period -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 23: Phnom Penh's Diamond Island: city of spectacle -- Introduction -- Research and methodology -- Contextualizing Diamond Island -- Diamond Island's history and development -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART IV: Environmental governance -- Overview: environmental governance -- Chapter 24: An assessment of disaster risk and resilience in rapidly urbanizing ASEAN cities -- An overview of ASEAN's hazardscape -- Data and methods -- Findings: major ASEAN cities and disaster risk -- Resilience building in large ASEAN cities -- Gaps and research needs -- Conclusions: powering resilience through planning -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 25: The political ecology of uneven development and vulnerability to disasters -- Introduction -- Political ecology of urban disasters -- Historical production of heightened vulnerability to floods: Bangkok, Jakarta, and Manila -- Creation of uneven vulnerability to floods -- Governance of urbanization and political economic drivers -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 26: Political ecologies of urbanizing natures in Southeast Asia -- Introduction -- Urban political ecology of urban Southeast Asia: everyday city-making and planetary urbanism -- Situating everyday urban political ecologies of food: metabolisms of fish flows in Metro Manila -- Urban political ecologies beyond the city: governing conflicting metabolic flows in the hinterland -- References -- Chapter 27: Urbanization and multiple-scales environmental challenges in Malaysia -- Introduction
Abstract:
National-scale environmental change
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