The politics of civic space in Asia
Subtitle: building urban communities
By: edited by Amrita Daniere and Mike Douglass.
Contributors: Daniere, Amrita.; Douglass, Mike.
Series: Routledge contemporary Asia series -- 7
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415464604; 9780203892770
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Asia -- Case studies; Civic centers -- Asia -- Case studies; City planning -- Asia -- Case studies; Public spaces -- Asia -- Case studies; Political participation -- Asia -- Case studies; Sociology, Urban -- Asia -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Urbanization and civic space in Asia / Mike Douglass and Amrita Daniere; title: Communities in retreat : civic spaces and state-society relations in globalizing Singapore / K.C. Ho; title: Machizukuri, civil society and community space in Japan / André Sorensen, Hideki Koizumi and Ai Miyamoto; title: Foreign workers and spaces for community life : Taipei's little Philippines / Li-ling Huang and Mike Douglass; title: Tangible and intangible civic spaces in Bangkok's slums / Amrita Daniere and Anchana NaRanong; title: The meaning of voice in Kuala Lumpur's changing urban communities / Yi Jin Woo; title: Kampung spaces and the future of Indonesian urbanism : reflections from Jogjakarta / Michael Leaf and Bakti Setiawan; title: Boundaries and belonging in Guangzhou : changing the nature of residential space in urban China / Alana Boland and Jiangang Zhu; title: Neighbourhood associations as civic space in Kathmandu : progressive and regressive possibilities / Sabin Ninglekhu and Katharine N. Rankin; title: Uses and understandings of public space among young : people in Hanoi, Viet Nam / Lisa Drummond and Nguyen Thi Lien; title: Policy implications and conclusion / Amrita Daniere and Mike Douglass.