Duncan McDuie-Ra is professor of Urban Sociology at University of Newcastle, Australia. His most recent sole-authored books are Borderland City in New India (2016), Debating Race in Contemporary India (2015), and Northeast Migrants in Delhi: Race, Refuge and Retail (2012).

"Duncan McDuie-Ra’s Skateboarding and Urban Landscapes in Asia: Endless Spots is an important contribution [to studies of skateboarding in Asia], offering a reflexive and nuanced account. [...] The book provides a refreshingly respectful, conceptually progressive, and richly detailed exploration of skateboarding in Asia. It also stands as one of too few ethnographic skateboarding studies of Asian skate scenes. [...] For non-skaters this book offers the opportunity to develop a kind of verstehen or knowledge of distinct subcultural nuances and ways of analyzing built environments in often rapidly changing Asian landscapes."- Indigo Willing, Griffith University, Asian Anthropology, 2021 "This book pushes the understanding of urban space in fascinating new ways by emphasizing the unique view upon the city that skaters develop through their peculiar spatial practice. It presents a huge number of rich insights that have been needed but never put to writing."- Max D. Woodworth, Ohio State University, Department of Geography "This empirically-rich, conceptually-thorough, and geographically-focused narrative opens up a whole new world of skateboarding to the academy. McDuie-Ra vividly explores how skateboarding has mutated from the West to the East, and in the process highlights the broadening cosmopolitanism of skateboarding across different cultural backgrounds from all over the world."- Dr Oli Mould, Lecturer in Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London "A remarkable reconceptualization of skateboarding geography and landscapes. Redrawing skateboarding's world to encompass the likes of China, Dubai, India, Kazakhstan, India and Palestine, McDuie-Ra rethinks skateboarding's global mobilities."- Iain Borden, Professor of Architecture & Urban Culture, University College London

• Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Urban Asia: Endless Spots Escaping the California Gridlock (Re)Mapping Asia Through Spots Structure of the Book Chapter 2. Shredding the Urban Fabric Spots: Urban Landscapes Below the Knees Infrastructure's Adjacent Publics Splicing the Map Life on Video, Life Online Conclusion Chapter 3. Chasing the Concrete Dragon From Chinese Consumers to Consuming China Skateboarding at Shenzhen Speed Endless Spots, New Cartographies Communist Wonderland Conclusion Chapter 4. Spectacle Cities: The Luxury Of Emptiness Central Asian Spectacles Emptying Dubai Dubai Unreal Spectacle And Its Others Conclusion Chapter 5. For the Love of Soviet Planning Post-Soviet Urban Space From Below (the Knees) Independence Square (Tashkent) Ala-Too Square (Bishkek) The Outer Grid Haunted Spots Conclusion Chapter 6. Skateboarding's New Frontiers Iran: Revolutionary Modernity India: Rough Cut Modern Shredding the Architecture of Occupation Conclusion Chapter 7. Conclusion: Another 'Next China' Real-Time Blues Endless Spots, Endless Search Bibliography Skate Videos And Media Files Published Sources Index