The Politics of Civic Space in Asia (eBook, PDF)

Building Urban Communities
Redaktion: Daniere, Amrita; Douglass, Mike

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how and why civic spaces are used by different communities in different cities of Asia in terms of their contribution to urban governance and public participation, and what role they play in the support or demise of communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134040223
• Artikelnr.: 42980472

Autorenporträt

Amrita Daniere is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto at Mississauga and graduate chair of the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. Mike Douglass is Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawaii.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Urbanization and Civic Space in Asia Mike Douglass and Amrita Daniere 2.
Communities in Retreat: Civic Spaces and State-Society Relations in
Globalizing Singapore K.C. Ho 3. Machizukuri, Civil Society and Community
Space in Japan André Sorensen, Hideki Koizumi and Ai Miyamoto 4. Foreign
Workers and Spaces for Community Life: Taipei's Little Philippines Li-ling
Huang and Mike Douglass 5.Tangible and Intangible Civic Spaces in Bangkok's
Slums Amrita Daniere and Anchana NaRanong 6. The Meaning of Voice in Kuala
Lumpur's Changing Urban Communities Yi Jin Woo 7. Kampung Spaces and the
Future of Indonesian Urbanism: Reflections from Jogjakarta Michael Leaf and
Bakti Setiawan 8. Boundaries and Belonging in Guangzhou: Changing the
Nature of Residential Space in Urban China Alana Boland and Jiangang Zhu 9.
Neighbourhood Associations as Civic Space in Kathmandu Progressive and
Regressive Possibilities Sabin Ninglekhu and Katharine N. Rankin 10. Uses
and Understandings of Public Space among Young People in Hanoi, Viet Nam
Lisa Drummond and Nguyen Thi Lien 11. Policy Implications and Conclusion
Amrita Daniere and Mike Douglass