ABSTRACT
The study of urbanization in Southeast Asia has been a growing field of research over the past decades. The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization in Southeast Asia offers a collection of the major streams and themes in the studies of the cities in the region. A focus on the urbanization process rather than the city as an object opens the topic more broadly to bring together different perspectives. This timely handbook presents these diverse views to build a clearer understanding of theoretical contributions of urban studies in Southeast Asia and to provide a complete collection of scholarly works that are thematically structured and a useful tool for teaching urbanization in Southeast Asia.
Following the introduction by the editor, the handbook is structured along central, emerging themes. It contains six parts, which are each introduced by the editor:
- Theorizing Urbanization in Southeast Asia
- Migration, Networks and Identities
- Development and Discontents
- Environmental Governance
- The Social Production of the Urban Fabric
- Social Change and Alternative Development
This handbook will be an essential reference work for scholars interested in Urban Studies, cities and urbanization in Asia, and Southeast Asian Studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|125 pages
Theorizing urbanization in Southeast Asia
chapter 8|14 pages
Challenges and opportunities of comparative urbanism
chapter 9|15 pages
Debilitating city-centricity
part II|71 pages
Migration, networks and identities
chapter 10|11 pages
Longing and belonging in a global city
chapter 14|12 pages
Between tradition and modernity
part III|117 pages
Development and discontents
chapter 16|14 pages
Mega-regionalization of a nation
chapter 19|16 pages
From socialist modernism to market modernism?
chapter 20|12 pages
Peri-urbanization in the Surabaya metropolitan area
chapter 21|11 pages
Contesting development
part IV|66 pages
Environmental governance
part V|60 pages
The social production of the urban fabric
chapter 33|14 pages
Informality, Advocacy, and Governmentality in Urbanizing northern Philippine Cities
part VI|48 pages
Social change and alternative development