Mega-Urbanization in the Global South: Fast Cities and New Urban Utopias of the Postcolonial State

ISBN-13: 9780367595814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 224 str.

Ayona Datta; Abdul Shaban

Opis

With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars drawing upon real world examples, this title is the first to use the lens of speed to examine the postcolonial ‘urban revolution’. It explores the contradictions between intended and unintended outcomes of fast cities and points to their fault lines between

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Introduction

1. Fast cities in the Urban Age

Ayona Datta

Fast cities and ‘new’ urban utopias

2. Frictionless Utopias for the Contemporary Urban Age: Large-scale, Master-planned Redevelopment Projects in Urbanizing Africa

Martin Murray

3. New African city plans: local urban form and the acceleration of urban inequalities.

Vanessa Watson

4. Speed kills: Fast urbanism and endangered sustainability in the Masdar City project

Federico Cugurullo

Entrepreneurial states

5. Envisioned by the State: Entrepreneurial Urbanism and the Making of Songdo City, South Korea

Hyun Shin

6. From petro-urbanism to knowledge megaprojects in the Persian Gulf: Qatar Foundation’s Education City

Agatino Rizzo

7. ‘Their houses on our land’: Perforations and blockades in the Planning of New Town Rajarhat, India

Ratoola Kundu

Mega-urbanization and Masterplanning

8. Mega-suburbanization in Jakarta Mega-urban Region

Delik Hudalah and Tommy Firman

9. Mega- Scale Sustainability: The relational production of a new Lusaka

Mathew Lane

10. Planning new towns in the People’s Republic: Political dimensions of eco-city images in China.

Braulio Morera

Slow: Towards a decelerated urbanism

Abdul Shaban and Ayona Datta

O autorze

Ayona Datta is Reader in Human Geography at Kings College London, UK.

Abdul Shaban is Professor at the School of Development Studies and Deputy Director (Tuljapur campus), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.