Asian cities globalization, urbanization and nation-building
Challenges Western paradigms of urban growth with a fresh look at cities in developing Asia. This book questions the status accorded to globalization in explaining contemporary Asian cities, arguing instead that they are being transformed by three major forces - urbanization and nation-building as w...
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| Language: | English |
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Copenhagen S, Denmark
NIAS Press
2011
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| Series: | Nordic Institute of Asian Studies monograph series
120 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Urbanization and the Asian city
- 3. Urbanism and the Asian city
- 4. Businesses and cities
- 5. Migrants and cities
- 6. Travellers and cities
- 7. Commercial popular culture and citie
- 8. Asian cities and twenty-first century globalization