Cities in Asia by and for the People (Hardcover, 0)

This book examines the active role of urban citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production of urban spaces that continue to encroach various neighborhoods, lanes, commons, public land and other spaces of community life and livelihoods. The collection of narratives presented here brings together research from ten different Asian cities and re-theorises the city from the perspective of ordinary people facing moments of crisis, contestations, and cooperative quests to create alternative spaces to those being produced under prevailing urban processes. The chapters accent the exercise of human agency through daily practices in the production of urban space and the intention is not one of creating a romantic or utopian vision of what a city "by and for the people" ought to be. Rather, it is to place people in the centre as mediators of city-making with discontents about current conditions and desires for a better life.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Asian Cities
Release date:	September 2018
Editors:	Yves Cabannes • Mike Douglass • Rita Padawangi
Contributors:	Joergen Hellman • Fanny Gerbeaud • Piyapong Boossabong • Ngai Ming Yip • Steve Ferzacca • Motohiro Koizumi • Lynne Milgram
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	348
Edition:	0
ISBN-13:	978-9462985223
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General
LSN:	9462985227
Barcode:	9789462985223

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