Worlding Cities (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405192774)

Vendor: Ananya Roy
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Worlding Cities

$96.75

Worlding Cities

$96.75
Format: Hardcover
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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


Author: Ananya Roy
ISBN-10: 1405192771
ISBN-13: 9781405192774
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2011
Pages: 376
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.00d
By Ananya Roy
By Ananya Roy
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Ananya Roy is Professor of City and Regional Planning and Co-Director of Global Metropolitan Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent book is Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development (2010).

Aihwa Ong is Professor of Socio-cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent publications are Privatizing China, Socialism from Afar (2008) and Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate (2010).

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