Urban Development in Southeast Asia

✍ Scribed by Rita Padawangi

• Publisher: Cambridge university press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 94
• Category: Library

✦ Table of 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