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).

• INTRODUCTION Asian Cities: Colonial to Global Gregory Bracken PART ONE: POST-COLONIALISM 1 Gambling, City, Nation: Popular Illegality and Nation-Building in Singapore, 1960s-80s Kah-Wee Lee 2 The Death of the Bazaar: 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 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 Postcolonial 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 Re-Globalizing Shanghai's City Centre Ying Zhou CONCLUSION Global Cities in Asia Gregory Bracken