Cities in Asia by and for the People (1) (Asian Cities)

Synopsis

This book examines the active role of urban citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production of urban spaces that continue to encroach various neighborhoods, lanes, commons, public land and other spaces of community life and livelihoods. The collection of narratives presented here brings together research from ten different Asian cities and re-theorises the city from the perspective of ordinary people facing moments of crisis, contestations, and cooperative quests to create alternative spaces to those being produced under prevailing urban processes. The chapters accent the exercise of human agency through daily practices in the production of urban space and the intention is not one of creating a romantic or utopian vision of what a city by and for the people ought to be. Rather, it is to place people in the centre as mediators of city-making with discontents about current conditions and desires for a better life. This book examines the active role of citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production of space that continues to encroach various neighborhoods.

Copyright:

2018

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

348 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781040789544

Related ISBNs:

9781040776551, 9781003692607, 9781041177029, 9789462985223

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

10/02/25

Copyrighted By:

Yves Cabannes, Michael Douglass & Rita Padawangi / Taylor & Francis Group

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Politics and Government

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Mike Douglass

Edited by:

Rita Padawangi

Edited by:

Yves Cabannes