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