Worlding Cities

Ananya Roy is Professor of City and Regional Planning and Co-Director of Global Metropolitan Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent book is Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development (2010). Aihwa Ong is Professor of Socio-cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent publications are Privatizing China, Socialism from Afar (2008) and Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate (2010).

“I am hopeful that this collection, along with others of its kind, will inspire new lines of research and theorisation that will help arrest the actual realities of cities in an era of planetary urbanisation.”  (Urban Studies, 1 February  2015)

• List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors viiiSeries Editors’ Preface xiiiPreface and Acknowledgments xvIntroduction Worlding Cities, or the Art of Being Global 1Aihwa OngPart I Modeling 271 Singapore as Model: Planning Innovations, Knowledge Experts 29Chua Beng Huat2 Urban Modeling and Contemporary Technologies of City-Building in China: The Production of Regimes of Green Urbanisms 55Lisa Hoffman3 Planning Privatopolis: Representation and Contestation in the Development of Urban Integrated Mega-Projects 77Gavin Shatkin4 Ecological Urbanization: Calculating Value in an Age of Global Climate Change 98Shannon MayPart II Inter-Referencing 1275 Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia's Urban Postmodern: The Case of Hong Kong 129Helen F. Siu6 Cracks in the Façade: Landscapes of Hope and Desire in Dubai 160Chad Haines 7 Asia in the Mix: Urban Form and Global Mobilities – Hong Kong, Vancouver, Dubai 182Glen Lowry and Eugene McCann8 Hyperbuilding: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Hyperspace of Sovereignty 205Aihwa OngPart III New Solidarities 2279 Speculating on the Next World City 229Michael Goldman10 The Blockade of the World-Class City: Dialectical Images of Indian Urbanism 259Ananya Roy11 Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi 279D. Asher GhertnerConclusion Postcolonial Urbanism: Speed, Hysteria, Mass Dreams 307Ananya RoyIndex 336