The Political Economy of Megaprojects in Asia: State Power, Land Control, Financial Flows, and Dispossession

ISBN-13: 9781138070431 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 254 str.

Hyun Bang Shin; Dong-Wan Gimm

Spis treści

Introduction: Asian Urbanization and the Politics of Scale in Mega-Projects

Hyun Bang Shin and Dong-Wan Gimm

[Part 1] The Political Economy of Urbanization and Mega-projects

1. National Mega-project and the Mobilization of Urban Development in South Korea

Dong-Wan Gimm

2. Coping with Crisis in Developmental Urbanization: The Yongsan Mega-Project in Seoul

Hyun Bang Shin

3. Smart City or Real Estate Hoax? The Rise of Zone-City in East Asia

Jinn-yuh Hsu

4. Multi-scalar Dynamics driving India’s Urban Megaprojects: Speculative Urbanization and the IT Corridor in Chennai

Loraine Kennedy

5. Political Economy of the Large Scale Transportation Projects in Istanbul: State, Capital and Partnerships in Urban Mega-Projects

Cagri Carikci

[Part 2] Planning and Governing Mega-projects

6. Erasing Lee Tung Street: Class and Difference in the Urban Redevelopment of Hong Kong

Bart Wissink

7. The Majestic Axis of Guangzhou and the Political Reinvention of Urban Form

Francesca Frassoldati, Alessandro Armando

8. The Politics of Peri-urban Mega-projects in Jakarta Metropolitan Area: From Privatization to Networking strategies

Delik Hudalah

9. City of Enclaves: Urban Governance and Citizen Planners in Gurgaon

Shoshana Goldstein

10. Manufacturing Cities: Industrial Policy and Urban Planning in India

Neha Sami and Shriya Anand

11. Conclusion: Urban Futures and Asian Urbanisation

Hyun Bang Shin and Dong-Wan Gimm

Afterword

Bae-Gyoon Park

O autorze

Hyun Bang Shin is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Dong-Wan Gimm is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Kyungnam University, South Korea