Asian cities : colonial to global / edited by Gregory Bracken.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bracken, Gregory, editor.

Series:

Asian cities (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 2.

Asian citites ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban--Asia.

Sociology, Urban.

Cities and towns--Asia.

Cities and towns.

Asia--Economic conditions.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When people look at success stories among postcolonial nations, the focus almost always turns to Asia, where many cities in former colonies have become key locations of international commerce and culture. This book brings together a stellar group of scholars from a number of disciplines to explore the rise of Asian cities, including Singapore, Macau, Hong Kong, and more. Dealing with history, geography, culture, architecture, urbanism, and other topics, the book attempts to formulate a new understanding of what makes Asian cities such global leaders.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Asian Cities: Colonial to Global

Gregory Bracken

Part One

Post-colonialism

1. Gambling, City, Nation

Popular Illegality and Nation Building in Singapore, 1960s-1980s

Kah-Wee Lee

2. The Death of the Pasar Malam

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 Nippō and Hong Kong-Japan Relations

Re-examining the Geopolitical Position of Colonial Hong Kong in East Asia before the End of World War II

Wilson 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 Post-colonial 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 Reglobalizing Shanghai's City Centre

Ying Zhou

Conclusion

Global Cities in Asia

Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Figures.

Figure 13.1 The South Gate of the World Heritage-listed Thang Long-Hanoi citadel

Figure 13.2 The Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, a future World Heritage nomination?

Figure 13.3 The beaux-arts palace of the French Indochina Governor-General built in Hanoi in 1907

Figure 13.4 The neoclassical New Law Courts built in Yangon in 1927

Figure 13.5 Demolition site in Hanoi's French Quarter, 1990

Figure 13.6 Derelict warehouse, Yangon 2012

Figure 14.1 Café Volcan

Figure 14.2 Yongkang Road

Figure 14.3 Plan of Jing'an Villas, with ground-floor commercial insertions indicated

Figure 14.4 Jing'an Villas ground floor commercial viewed from the front courtyard

Figure 14.5 People reading the plaques of the heritage buildings on Wukang Road

Figure 14.6 Photos of the interior of huiguan club houses on Wukang Road

Figure 14.7 Map with the creative commercial activities highlighted and the three research areas around Yongkang Road, Jing'an Villas and Wukang Road

Tables

Table 1.1 Gambling-related offences, 1951-1973

Table 1.2 Number of prosecutions, 1967-1968

Table 9.1 Contribution of each state to the IIP.

Figure 10.2 Inside-out Ramna. These aerial photographs show Ramna as a forest or park at the centre in sharp contrast to the dense urban morphology

Figure 10.3 Open spaces in the capital. Ramna (number 10) is a vast open public space located at the heart of the capital

Figure 10.4 Dhaka City Map, 1859

Figure 10.5 Map of the new Civil Station of Dhaka (1905)

Figure 10.6 Neoclassical Dhaka College (left) and Indo-Saracenic Curzon Hall (right)

Figure 10.7 The wave of new construction around Ramna

Figure 10.8 Constantine Doxiadis's 1963 plan for the Teachers' Students' Centre (TSC), Ramna

Figure 10.9 Ramna in 1952 (left) and 1960 (right)

Figure 10.10 Pseudo-Islamic versus modern architecture in Ramna

Figure 10.11 The gradual transformation of Ramna racecourse from a maidan (open space) to a children's park and the city's recreational Park Suhrawardy Uddyan (left)

figure-ground plan of Ramna (right)

Figure 10.12 The Design interventions of Liberation War Museum at the historical Ramna racecourse (present Suhrawardy Uddyan)

Figure 10.13 Ramna holds a delicate balance between institutions, representative buildings, and monuments at the centre of the city

Figure 11.1 New Songdo's high-rise towers, including the First World Complex, with real estate advertisements lining the streets

Figure 11.2 IFEZ advertisements ('Developing the City at the Heart of South Korea's Leading Service Industries', right-hand poster translation)

Figure 11.3 Compact Smart City Exhibit Building

Figure 11.4 Model of New Songdo

Figure 11.5 Show-model apartment in New Songdo's POSCO (The Sharp at Greenworks)

Figure 11.6 New Songdo's border area

Figure 11.7 Ja-ap Village near New Songdo being demolished

Figure 12.1 Clarke Quay shophouses and the tourist boats

Figure 12.2 Museum Fatahillah in Kota Tua (Old Town), Jakarta.

Figure 4.9 Street artists Start From Zero (SFZ), poster of Henry Tang, 2013

Figure 4.10 Graffiti artist RST2, spray-painted banners of local parties, 2013

Figure 4.11 Graffiti artist RST2, poster of Leung Kwok-hung, 2014

Figure 4.12 Graffiti artist Pibg Gantz, a spray-painted piece, Macau, 2012

Figure 5.1 Japanese submarine cables in East Asia, 1915

Figure 5.2 Planned cable routes in the East Asia Stability Sphere, 1940

Figure 5.3 The cable and wireless network, 1934

Figure 6.1 Bank of Korea (present day)

Figure 6.2 National Taiwan Museum 1949-present

Figure 6.3 Remains of torii gate (present day)

Figure 6.4 Taiwan's Presidential Palace (present day)

Figure 7.1 Hong Kong-Macau Passenger Ferry Terminal, Humen Town, Dongguan, China

Figure 7.2 Apartment blocks near the upstream check-in terminal, Dongguan

Figure 7.3 Rendering of SkyPier, Hong Kong International Airport

Terminal 1 in the background

Figure 7.4 APM tunnel between SkyPier and Terminal 1, Hong Kong International Airport

Figure 7.5 Mainland ferry staff at SkyPier, Hong Kong International Airport

Figure 7.6 Luggage cranes at SkyPier, Hong Kong International Airport

Figure 8.1 The Lloyd's Shipping Index in 1890

Figure 8.2 Global and local data source comparison based on the Chinese case, 1890-2008

Figure 8.3 Regional distribution of world vessel movements, 1890-2008

Figure 8.4 Regional distribution of vessel movements in Asia, 1890-2008

Figure 8.5 Traffic hierarchy of Asian port cities, 1890-2008

Figure 8.6 Port trajectories of selected Asian cities, 1890-2008

Figure 10.1 The timeline of Dhaka. The timeline shows the position of Ramna

a green oasis in-between indigenous and postcolonial extensions of the city.

Figure 1.1 Factors influencing gambling frequency amongst industrial workers

Figure 1.2 'The individual as target'

Figure 1.3 Exposing gambling fortifications

Figure 1.4 'A gambling spot by any other name'

Figure 3.1 Plan de la Ville et du Port de Macao

Figure 3.2 Peninsula de Macau e Ilha da Taipa

Figure 3.3 Aerial photo of Z.A.P.E. Reclamation, 1941

Figure 3.4 Aomen shi quan tu (City Plan of Macau)

Figure 3.5 Z.A.P.E. in the 1980s

Figure 3.6 Álvaro Siza and P & T Group proposal for N.A.P.E. and Novos Aterros da Areia Preta

Figure 3.7 N.A.P.E. planning regulations

Figure 3.8 Eduardo Lima Soares, Nova Cidade de Cotai, plan

Figure 3.9 Eduardo Lima Soares, Nova Cidade de Cotai, model

Figure 3.10 Las Vegas Sands Corporation original proposal for the Cotai Strip, 2002

Figure 3.11 Novos Zonas Urbanas diagram

Figure 3.12 Novos Zonas Urbanas rendering

Figure 3.13 Novos Zonas Urbanas reclamation in progress

Figure 3.14 Rocco Yim, StarWorld Macau, 2006

Figure 3.15 Dennis Lau, Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino, 2007

Figure 3.16 View of the Cotai Strip

Figure 3.17 Gary Goddard, Galaxy Macau, 2011

Figure 3.18 AEDES, Sands Cotai Central, 2012

Figure 4.1 Tsang Tsou-choi (King of Kowloon), untitled (pair of iron gates), ink on iron gates, 200 cm x 270 cm

Figure 4.2 MAIS, ORSEK and JAMS, a spray-painted commemorative piece for Tsang in Fotan, 2007

Figure 4.3 Anonymous local artists, a sticker in MTR station, 2014

Figure 4.4 Anonymous local artists, a sticker in MTR train, 2014

Figure 4.5 Street artist Death, Mao with a Yellow Bowtie, stencil, 2012

Figure 4.6 Street photographer Cpak Ming, 'Modern VIIV spirit', photograph, 2011

Figure 4.7 Chin Tangerine, Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei?, stencil, 2011

Figure 4.8 Artist Kacey Wong, 'Attack of the Red Giant', 2014.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-366) and index.

ISBN:

1-003-69123-4

1-04-079372-X

90-485-2824-0

9781003691235

OCLC:

916529309