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Author Padawangi, Rita, author.

Title Urban development in Southeast Asia / Rita Padawangi
Published Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (85 pages)
Series Cambridge elements. Politics and society in Southeast Asia, 2515-2998
Cambridge elements. Politics and society in Southeast Asia. 2515-2998
Contents Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Urban Development in Southeast Asia -- Contents -- 1 The Politics of Urban Development in Southeast Asia -- 1.1 Southeast Asia as a Postcolonial Region -- 1.2 Urban Development as Power Contestations -- 1.3 Structure of the Element -- 2 Historical "Debris" in Southeast Asia's Urban Development -- 2.1 From "Cosmic Centers" to "Nationalist Centers" -- 2.2 The "Debris" of the "Colonial City" -- 2.3 The "Debris" of . . . the "City"? -- 2.4 Learning from History -- 3 Planning for Urban Development -- 3.1 Elusive Master Plans
3.1.1 Singapore: A Model City? -- 3.1.2 Jakarta: Master Plan -- 3.2 Planning versus Informality? -- 3.3 Planning and "Leveling" -- 4 Studying Urban Development in Southeast Asia -- 4.1 Limitations of Official Datasets -- 4.2 Deciphering "Messiness" from Below -- 4.2.1 The Urban Poor -- 4.2.2 Gendered Spaces -- 4.2.3 Migration -- 4.2.4 Heterogeneity and "In-between" -- 4.3 Groundedness and Multi-Scalar Thinking -- 5 Political Ecology and Environmental Justice -- 5.1 Political Ecology -- 5.1.1 Flooding -- 5.1.2 Waste and Pollution -- 5.1.3 Political Ecology as Urban Development Critique
5.2 Urban Social Movements -- 7 Epilogue -- References
Summary Urbanization as a process is rife with inequality, in Southeast Asia as anywhere else, but resistance and contestation persist on the ground. In this element, the author sets out to achieve three goals: 1) to examine the political nature of urban development; 2) to scrutinize the implications of power inequality in urban development discussions; and 3) to highlight topical and methodological contributions to urban studies from Southeast Asia. The key to a robust understanding is groundedness: knowledge about the everyday realities of urban life that are hard to see on the surface but dominate how the city functions, with particular attention to human agency and the political life of marginalized groups. Ignoring politics in research on urbanization essentially perpetuates the power inequities in urban development; this element thus focuses not just on Southeast Asian cities and urbanization per se, but also on critical perspectives on patterns and processes in their development
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 11, 2022)
Subject Urbanization -- Southeast Asia
Urbanization -- Political aspects -- Southeast Asia
City planning -- Political aspects -- Southeast Asia
City planning -- Political aspects.
Urbanization.
Urbanization -- Political aspects.
Southeast Asia.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781108669108
1108669107
9781108639644
110863964X