Messy urbanism
Subtitle: understanding the "other" cities of Asia
By: edited by Manish Chalana and Jeffrey Hou
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Hong Kong
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9789888313471; 9789888208333
Subjects: Cities and towns; Urban policy; City planning; Villes; Politique urbaine; ARCHITECTURE; Urban & Land Use Planning
Description: Seemingly messy and chaotic, the landscapes and urban life of cities in Asia possess an order and hierarchy which often challenge understanding and appreciation. With a cross-disciplinary group of authors, Messy Urbanism: Understanding the "Other" Cities of Asia examines a range of cases in Asia to explore the social and institutional politics of urban formality and the contexts in which this "messiness" emerges or is constructed. The book brings a distinct perspective to the broader patterns of informal urban orders and processes as well as their interplay with formalized systems and mechanisms. It also raises questions about the production of cities, cityscapes, and citizenship.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Untangling the "messy" Asian city / Jeffrey Hou and Manish Chalana; title: 2. A history of messiness : order and resilience on the sidewalks of Ho Chi Minh City / Annette M. Kim; title: 3. The order of messiness : notes from an Indonesian city / Abidin Kusno; title: 4. Concrete jungle or geocultural cipher? Reading lineage into the perils and prospects of metro Manila / Jose Edgardo A. Gomez Jr.; title: 5. The Royal Field (Sanam Luang) : Bangkok's polysemic urban palimpsest / Koompong Noobanjong; title: 6. Shinjuku [kanji characters for Shinjuku] : messy urbanism at the metabolic crossroads / Ken Tadashi Oshima; title: 7. Little Manila : the other central of Hong Kong / Daisy Tam; title: 8. Neutral equilibrium in public space : Mong Kok Flower Market in Hong Kong / Kin Wai Michael Siu and Mingjie Zhu; title: 9. Making sense of the order in the disorder in Delhi's Kathputti Colony / Manish Chalana and Susmita Rishi; title: 10. Messy work : transnational collaboration in Chandigarh / Vikramāditya Prakāsh; title: 11. Everyday urban flux : temporary urbanism in East Asia as insurgent planning / Jeffrey Hou; title: 12. Messy urbanism and space for community empowerment in China / Daniel Benjamin Abramson; title: Epilogue : sites of questions, contestations, and resistance / Manish Chalana and Jeffrey Hou.