Mega-urbanization in the global South : fast cities and new urban utopias of the postcolonial state / edited by Ayona Datta and Abdul Shaban.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Datta, Ayona, editor.

Shaban, Abdul, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in urbanism and the city

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--Developing countries--Case studies.

Urbanization.

City planning--Developing countries--Case studies.

City planning.

Urban policy--Developing countries--Case studies.

Urban policy.

Developing countries.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 224 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Contents:

Fast cities in the urban age / Ayona Datta

Frictionless utopias for the contemporary urban age : large-scale, master-planned redevelopment projects in urbanizing Africa / Martin Murray

New African city plans : local urban form and the acceleration of urban inequalities / Vanessa Watson

Speed kills : fast urbanism and endangered sustainability in the Masdar City project / Federico Cugurullo

Envisioned by the state : entrepreneurial urbanism and the making of Songdo City, South Korea / Hyun Shin

From petro-urbanism to knowledge megaprojects in the Persian Gulf : Qatar Foundation's Education City / Agatino Rizzo

"Their houses on our land" : perforations and blockades in the planning of New Town Rajarhat, India / Ratoola Kundu

Mega-suburbanization in Jakarta mega-urban region / Delik Hudalah and Tommy Firman

Mega-scale sustainability : the relational production of a new Lusaka / Mathew Lane

Planning new towns in the People's Republic : Political dimensions of eco-city images in China / Braulio Morera

Slow : towards a decelerated urbanism / Abdul Shaban and Ayona Datta.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415745512

0415745519

OCLC:

965766275