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 and Contestation
in the Development of Urban Integrated Mega-Projects ........ 77
Gavin Shatkin
4 Ecological Urbanization: Calculating Value in an Age of
Global Climate Change ....................................... 98
Shannon May
Part II Inter-Referencing
5 Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia's Urban
Postmodern: The Case of Hong Kong .......................... 127
Helen F. Siu
6 Cracks in the Façade: Landscapes of Hope and Desire in
Dubai ...................................................... 160
Chad Haines
7 Asia in the Mix: Urban Form and Global Mobilities - Hong
Kong, Vancouver, Dubai ..................................... 182
Glen Lowry and Eugene McCann
8 Hyperbuilding: 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
11 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
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