CONTENTS List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors :viii Series Editors' Preface xiii Preface and Acknowledgments xv IntroductionWorlding Cities, or the Art of Being Global 1 Aihwa Ong Part IModeling 27 1Singapore as Model: Planning Innovations, Knowledge Experts 29 Chua Beng Huat 2 Urban Modeling and Contemporary- Technologies of City-Building in China: The Production of Regimes of Green Urbanisms 55 Lisa Hoffman 3Planning Privatopolis: Representation arid Contestation in the Development of Urban Integrated Mega-Projects 7 7 Gavin Shatkin 4Ecological Urbanization; Calculating Value in an Age of Global Climate Change 98 Shannon May Part IIInter-Referencing 127 5Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia's Urban Postmodern: The Case of Hong Kong 129 Helen F. Siu 6Cracks in the Facade: Landscapes of Hope and Desire in Dubai 160 Chad Haines 1Asia in the Mix: Urban Form and Global Mobilities - Hong Kong, Vancouver, Dubai 182 Ifiwty and Eugene McCann 8Hyperbuikling: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Hyperspace of Sovereignty 205 Aihwa Ong Part IIINew Solidarities 227 9Speculating on the Next World City 229 Michael Goldman 10The Blockade of the World-Class City: Dialectical Images of Indian Urbanism 259 Ananya Roy 1 1Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi 279 D. Asher Ghertner ConclusionPostcolonial Urbanism: Speed, Hysteria, Mass Dreams 307 Ananya Roy Index 336