Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization. It includes important contributions from a respected group of scholars across a range of generations, disciplines, and sites of study. Describes the new theoretical framework of worlding Substantially expands and updates the themes of capital and culture Includes a unique collection of authors across generations, disciplines, and sites of study Demonstrates how references to Asian power, success, and hegemony make possible urban development and limit urban politics

Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asianurbanism to highlight the connections between different Asianmodels and practices of urbanization. It includes importantcontributions from a respected group of scholars across a range ofgenerations, disciplines, and sites of study.* Describes the new theoretical framework of'worlding'* Substantially expands and updates the themes of capital andculture* Includes a unique collection of authors across generationsdisciplines, and sites of study* Demonstrates how references to Asian power, success, andhegemony make possible urban development and limit urbanpolitics

List of Illustrations viiNotes on Contributors viiiSeries Editors' Preface xiiiPreface and Acknowledgments xvIntroduction Worlding Cities, or the Art of Being Global 1Aihwa OngPart I Modeling 271 Singapore as Model: Planning Innovations, Knowledge Experts29Chua Beng Huat2 Urban Modeling and Contemporary Technologies of City-Buildingin China: The Production of Regimes of Green Urbanisms 55Lisa Hoffman3 Planning Privatopolis: Representation and Contestation in theDevelopment of Urban Integrated Mega-Projects 77Gavin Shatkin4 Ecological Urbanization: Calculating Value in an Age of GlobalClimate Change 98Shannon MayPart II Inter-Referencing 1275 Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia's UrbanPostmodern: The Case of Hong Kong 129Helen F. Siu6 Cracks in the Façade: Landscapes of Hope and Desire inDubai 160Chad Haines7 Asia in the Mix: Urban Form and Global Mobilities - HongKong, Vancouver, Dubai 182Glen Lowry and Eugene McCann8 Hyperbuilding: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Hyperspace ofSovereignty 205Aihwa OngPart III New Solidarities 2279 Speculating on the Next World City 229Michael Goldman10 The Blockade of the World-Class City: Dialectical Images ofIndian Urbanism 259Ananya Roy11 Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi279D. Asher GhertnerConclusion Postcolonial Urbanism: Speed, Hysteria, Mass Dreams307Ananya RoyIndex 336