Asian Alleyways: An Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization critically explores "Global Asia" and the metropolization process, specifically from its alleyways, which are understood as ordinary neighbourhood landscapes providing the setting for everyday urban life and place-based identities being shaped by varied everyday practices, collective experiences and forces. Beyond the mainstream, standardising vision of the metropolization process, Asian Alleyways offers a nuanced overview of urban production in Asia at a time of great changes, and will be welcomed by an array of scholars, students, and all those interested in the modern transformation of Asian
cities and their urban cultures.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Asian alleyways
- An urban vernacular in times of globalization
- Marie Gibert-Flutre and Heide Imai
- Asian alleyways fading in the shadow of towers
- Asian cities upside down: Turning the theoretical approach to global cities on its head
- Asian alleyways: A cross-cultural approach
- An urban vernacular in times of globalization: Common ground and core issues
- Alleyways as liminal spaces and time reservoirs
- Alleyways as appropriated and multifunctional spaces
- Alleyways as contested and political spaces
- Reconsidering the versatility of the alleyway in times of globalization: What does the future hold for Asian alleyways?
- References
- 1. Between ‘network’ and ‘territory’
- Ho Chi Minh City’s alleyways as challenged liminal spaces
- Marie Gibert-Flutre
- Introduction
- Understanding the alleyway at the interface of ‘network’ and ‘territory’
- The case of two alleyway neighbourhoods in District 3
of Ho Chi Minh City
- Research methodology
- Alleyways: Standing on the threshold of the metropolis
- At the crossroads of planned and spontaneous historical development
- The alleyway as a multifunctional urban object
- Alleyways in times of metropolization: Towards a disrupted balance of network and territory?
- New challenges
- ‘Civilizing’, ‘modernizing’, and widening alleyways
- Metropolitan Vietnamese alleyways: Towards a hybrid model
- The new urban practices of the emerging middle class
- When the riveraineté strikes back in the alleyways
- Conclusion
- References
- About the author
- 2. Street-corner society and everyday politics in the Beijing hutong
- Ethnographic perspectives
- Judith Audin
- Street-corner politics in Beijing: Political control, everyday creativity, and social change in hutong alleyways
- The politics of placemaking: Local appropriations and social differentiation in the hutong
- Three imbricated spaces (house/yard/lane) producing a sense of place
- Living through spatial proximity and social distance
- The politics of interactions: Temporalities and spatialities of hutong use
- State control and subaltern forms of resistance
- Biopolitical Beijing: Sanitizing, reshaping, and civilizing the alleyways
- Resisting through inhabiting? Neighbourhood attachment and the pingfang-loufang opposition
- Marginalization of the ‘collective’ and exit from the hutong
- Conclusion
- References
- About the author
- 3. Alleyways between urban renewal, cultural innovation, and social integration
- The cases of Tokyo and Seoul
- Heide Imai
- Introduction
- The alleyways in Tokyo and Seoul: A realistic revival of the alleyway?
- The case of the roji in contemporary Tokyo
- The case of Tsukuda and Tsukishima, Tokyo
- The case of the golmok in contemporary Seoul
- The case of Insadong and Ikseondong, Seoul, Korea
- Urban narratives of everyday life in Tokyo
- Urban narratives of everyday life in Seoul
- Discussion
- The case of Tokyo
- The case of Seoul
- Conclusion
- References
- About the author
- 4. The transformation of ‘urban ordinaries’ into creative places
- A case study of Bangkok’s alleyway neighbourhoods
- Wimonrart Issarathumnoon
- Introduction
- Creative places formed from a bottom-up approach
- Spontaneous creative places in Asian contexts
- Chapter outline and research methodology
- Transformation processes of ordinary neighbourhoods in the cultural quarter of Bangkok
- Modernization and urbanization
- State-led urban regeneration, tourism, grassroots conservation efforts, and creative city policies
- Gentrification of the Phra Athit-Phra Sumen area
- Narratives of local residents and shop owners
- Nopparat Cuisine & Gallery
- Passport Bookshop
- Dialogue Coffee and Gallery
- Kope Hya Tai Kee, at Phanfa
- Head in the Cloud
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- About the author
- 5. Shanghai lilong
- From everyday life to conceived space
- Jiayu Ding and Xiaohua Zhong
- Introduction
- Lilong: Narrative of the Shanghai alley
- Arrival of migrants in the modernization of Shanghai (1900s-1950s)
- Cramped units and equalized everyday life in the industrialization of Shanghai (1960s-1990s)
- Imagined built heritage in a market economy and the globalization of Shanghai (post-2000)
- Locating Tianzifang in the Shanghai lilong
- Spontaneous creativity: Transforming the abandoned factories into galleries
- Communal entrepreneurship: Transforming residences into stores
- Legitimizing space: Official rezoning and governmental management
- Discussion
- Conflicts within conceived space: Cultural asset or ‘hot land’ for real estate?
- Conflicts within lived space: Home to live in or rental income?
- Conflicts among conceived and lived space: Top-down regulation or self-governance?
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- About the authors
- 6. From conflicts to commoning
- Alleyways as sites for social innovations in Taipei
- Jeffrey Hou
- Growing up in the alleyway
- Alleyways as urban commons in East Asia
- Alleyways in evolution in East Asia
- Changing alleyways in Taipei
- From conflicts to commoning: Shida Night Market and the Gufeng neighbourhood
- Xiaobaiwu as a social and spatial experiment
- Branching out through the alleyways
- Alleyways as space of commoning and innovations: Lessons and implications
- Acknowledgements
- References
- About the author
- 7. Magic Lanes
- A placemaking approach for laneway spaces in Hong Kong
- Melissa Cate Christ and Hendrik Tieben
- Introduction
- The lack of open space in Hong Kong’s high-density urban areas
- Placemaking, the right to the city, and the lack of citizen power
- The role of placemaking and asset-based community development
- Existing open space conditions and issues
- Conditions and potentials of Hong Kong’s alley, laneway, and terrace open space network
- History of alleys and lanes in Hong Kong
- Use, significance, and types of alleys and lanes in Hong Kong
- Magic Lanes, a pilot project for Hong Kong’s lane spaces
- From Magic Carpet to Magic Lanes
- Funding the Magic Lanes project
- Project aims
- Process of the project
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- About the authors
- The future of Asian alleyways
- Towards integrated and diverse alleyways
- Heide Imai and Marie Gibert-Flutre
- The cycle of the alleyway
- Common shared place or alternative landscape of reminiscence?
- The alleyway as marginal place
- The alleyway as everyday place
- Realities and possibilities of public places: A more sensitive urban design approach?
- Recognizing the role of marginal places
- Outlook
- References
- List of contributors
- Index
- Publications / Asian Cities
- List of figures and tables
- Figures
- Figure 0.1 Map of Asia
- Figure 1.1 The alleyway as a metropolitan liminal space
- Figure 1.2 Location map of Wards 1 and 3 of District 3 in Ho Chi Minh City
- Figure 1.3 Bàn Cờ alleyway and its bustling market in Ward 3 of District 3 in Ho Chi Minh City
- Figure 1.4 The production of comfit (mứt) in the alleyways of District 3 in Ward 1 of Ho Chi Minh City
- Figure 1.5 A sign rewarding the neighbourhood as part of the ‘cultural neighbourhood’ campaign, in Ward 3 of District 3
- Figure 2.1 Map of Shichahai area in 2019
- Figure 2.2 No more courtyard in Shichahai
- Figure 2.3 Hanging the laundry outside is a common practice in Shichahai
- Figure 2.4 Lao Beijing residents install chairs and tables to play chess, go, cards or mah-jong in Shichahai
- Figure 2.5 Resisting with Spring Festival poems (chunlian, 春聯) in Shichahai; left ‘Those who implement the law don’t guard the law’; top ‘New spring’; right ‘Those who know the law don’t respect the law’
- Figure 3.1 Map of Tsukishima-Tsukuda, Tokyo
- Figure 3.2 Contested urban landscape in Tsukuda and Tsukishima, Tokyo
- Figure 3.3 Contested urban landscape in Seoul
- Figure 3.4 Map of Insadong and Ikseondong, Seoul
- Figure 3.5 Alleyways in Tsukuda and Tsukishima, Tokyo
- Figure 3.6 Alleyways in Ikseondong and Insadong, Seoul
- Figure 4.1 Map of Banglamphu and Baan Phanthom in Bangkok
- Figure 4.2 Map of the Phra Athit-Phra Sumen area showing the variety of its cultural and creative sites
- Figure 4.3 Left Nopparat Cuisine & Gallery, a refurbished restaurant serving Thai cuisine in an intentionally nostalgic atmosphere; right Passport Bookshop, a pioneering bookshop and retailer of lifestyle goods, which also hosts a co-working space and cu
- Figure 4.4 Left Dialogue Coffee and Gallery, a well-known meeting place for educated youth, artists, and international tourists; right Kope Hya Tai Kee, at Phanfa, a cafe that blends reminiscence of the past with a celebration of modern lifestyles, prese
- Figure 4.5 Head in the Cloud, a mixed-use venue that serves young people interested in arts and cultural activities in Bangkok’s Old Town
- Figure 5.1 The layout of a shikumen lilong
- Figure 5.2 Map of Tianzifang
- Figure 5.3 Interior view of Tianzifang
- Figure 5.4 Overview of lilong houses in Chunyangli. The two rows of lilong houses in the front have been renovated. The houses in the rear row will be renovated soon.
- Figure 6.1 Shida Night Market became a site of neighbourhood conflicts in 2011
- Figure 6.2 Map of the Shida Night Market and Gufeng neighbourhood. 1. White Hut; 2. Mango Herb Garden; 3. ‘Black-Gold Plaza’; 4. Skyline Alley
- Figure 6.3 Xiaobaiwu occupies a corner of an alleyway intersection, providing it with a prominent location to engage users
- Figure 6.4 The vacant space was transformed into an active makerspace and community hub with excellent visibility from the adjacent alleyways and street
- Figure 6.5 Mango Herb Garden – an unused dormitory facing an alleyway was transformed into a welcoming garden and community space
- Figure 6.6 Yishientian (一線天) Passageway – greening of a back alleyway with an irrigation system that can be controlled remotely via a mobile app
- Figure 7.1 Sheung Fung Lane, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong
- Figure 7.2 Third Street Playground, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong, 2018
- Figure 7.3 Public space in private development – Wang In Fong East Lane, Hong Kong, 2018
- Figure 7.4 Typical Hong Kong alley, Sai Ying Pun, 2019
- Figure 7.5 Sheung Fung Lane steps, City of Victoria, Department of Public Works, 1897
- Figure 7.6 Sheung Fung Lane, Sai Yin Pun, Hong Kong, 2018
- Figure 7.7 Toi Tei Kung Shrine, Sheung Fung Lane, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong, 2018
- Figure 7.8 Mid-Autumn Festival in Sheung Fung Lane, 2017
- Tables
- Table 0.1 The diversity of Asian alleyways
- Table 5.1 Proportion of leased houses in Tianzifang, 2004-2013
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