TY - GEN AU - Roy, Ananya Ed. AU - Ong, Aihwa Ed. TI - Worlding cities : Asian experiments and the art of being global SN - 9781405192767 U1 - 307.1412 PY - 2011/// CY - West Sussex PB - Blackwell Publishing Ltd. KW - N1 - CONTENTS List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors : viii Series Editors' Preface xiii Preface and Acknowledgments xv Introduction Worlding Cities, or the Art of Being Global 1 Aihwa Ong Part I Modeling 27 1 Singapore 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 3 Planning Privatopolis: Representation arid Contestation in the Development of Urban Integrated Mega-Projects 7 7 Gavin Shatkin 4 Ecological Urbanization; Calculating Value in an Age of Global Climate Change 98 Shannon May Part II Inter-Referencing 127 5 Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia's Urban Postmodern: The Case of Hong Kong 129 Helen F. Siu 6 Cracks in the Facade: Landscapes of Hope and Desire in Dubai 160 Chad Haines 1 Asia in the Mix: Urban Form and Global Mobilities - Hong Kong, Vancouver, Dubai 182 Ifiwty and Eugene McCann 8 Hyperbuikling: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Hyperspace of Sovereignty 205 Aihwa Ong Part III New Solidarities 227 9 Speculating on the Next World City 229 Michael Goldman 10 The Blockade of the World-Class City: Dialectical Images of Indian Urbanism 259 Ananya Roy 1 1 Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi 279 D. Asher Ghertner Conclusion Postcolonial Urbanism: Speed, Hysteria, Mass Dreams 307 Ananya Roy Index 336 ER -