CONTENTS Notes on contributors vii Foreword xi FELICITY D. SCOTT Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 GRETCHEN WILKINS 1 The city you can't see on Google Earth 7 ILKA AND ANDREAS RUBY 2 Rural urbanism: thriving under the radar - Beijing's villages in the city 21 ROBERT MANGURIAN AND MARY-ANN RAY 3 Rotterdam 1979-2007: from ideology to market communism and beyond 43 MICHAEL SPEAKS 4 MEGAHOUSE 57 HITOSHI ABE AND MASASHIGE MOTOE 5 Borderland/Borderama/Detroit 63 JERRY HERRON 6 Rubble in the sand 87 JOHAN VAN SCHAIK AND SIMON DRYSDALE 7 Density of emptiness101 JASON YOUNG 8 Antisepsis 125 LI SHIQIAO 9 Beyond urbanism: Mumbai and the cultivation of an eye 139 ANURADHA MATHUR AND DILIP DA CUNHA 10 Resurrecting cities: instant urban planning - real-time urbanization and planners' new role in emergency situations 155 IGNASI PEREZ ARNAL, TRANSLATED BY OSCAR YANEZ DEL MAZO 11 Productive residue: the casting of alternative public space 169 DAN PITERA 12 Bubble cities: islands, airports, and nomads 183 GRETCHEN WILK1NS Bibliography 195 Index 199