With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars drawing upon real world examples, this title is the first to use the lens of speed to examine the postcolonial 'urban revolution'. It explores the contradictions between intended and unintended outcomes of fast cities and points to their fault lines between
With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars drawing upon real world examples, this title is the first to use the lens of speed to examine the postcolonial 'urban revolution'. It explores the contradictions between intended and unintended outcomes of fast cities and points to their fault lines between
Ayona Datta is Reader in Human Geography at Kings College London, UK. Abdul Shaban is Professor at the School of Development Studies and Deputy Director (Tuljapur campus), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.
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Introduction 1. Fast cities in the Urban Age Ayona Datta Fast cities and 'new' urban utopias 2. Frictionless Utopias for the Contemporary Urban Age: Large-scale, Master-planned Redevelopment Projects in Urbanizing Africa Martin Murray 3. New African city plans: local urban form and the acceleration of urban inequalities. Vanessa Watson 4. Speed kills: Fast urbanism and endangered sustainability in the Masdar City project Federico Cugurullo Entrepreneurial states 5. Envisioned by the State: Entrepreneurial Urbanism and the Making of Songdo City, South Korea Hyun Shin 6. From petro-urbanism to knowledge megaprojects in the Persian Gulf: Qatar Foundation's Education City Agatino Rizzo 7. 'Their houses on our land': Perforations and blockades in the Planning of New Town Rajarhat, India Ratoola Kundu Mega-urbanization and Masterplanning 8. Mega-suburbanization in Jakarta Mega-urban Region Delik Hudalah and Tommy Firman 9. Mega- Scale Sustainability: The relational production of a new Lusaka Mathew Lane 10. 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
Introduction 1. Fast cities in the Urban Age Ayona Datta Fast cities and 'new' urban utopias 2. Frictionless Utopias for the Contemporary Urban Age: Large-scale, Master-planned Redevelopment Projects in Urbanizing Africa Martin Murray 3. New African city plans: local urban form and the acceleration of urban inequalities. Vanessa Watson 4. Speed kills: Fast urbanism and endangered sustainability in the Masdar City project Federico Cugurullo Entrepreneurial states 5. Envisioned by the State: Entrepreneurial Urbanism and the Making of Songdo City, South Korea Hyun Shin 6. From petro-urbanism to knowledge megaprojects in the Persian Gulf: Qatar Foundation's Education City Agatino Rizzo 7. 'Their houses on our land': Perforations and blockades in the Planning of New Town Rajarhat, India Ratoola Kundu Mega-urbanization and Masterplanning 8. Mega-suburbanization in Jakarta Mega-urban Region Delik Hudalah and Tommy Firman 9. Mega- Scale Sustainability: The relational production of a new Lusaka Mathew Lane 10. 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
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