Neighbourhoods for the City in Pacific Asia

Neighbourhoods for the City in Pacific Asia

  • Auteur: Ho, Kong Chong
  • Éditeur: Amsterdam University Press
  • Collection: Asian Cities
  • ISBN: 9789462983885
  • eISBN Pdf: 9789048534340
  • Lieu de publication:  Amsterdam , Netherlands
  • Année de publication électronique: 2019
  • Mois : Décembre
  • Pages: 188
  • Langue: Anglais
The largest cities in Pacific Asia are the engines of their countries’ economic growth, seats of national and regional political power, and repositories of the nation’s culture and heritage. The economic changes impacting large cities interact with political forces along with social cultural concerns, and in the process also impact the neighbourhoods of the city. Neighbourhoods for the City in Pacific Asia looks at local collective action and city government responses and its impact on the neighbourhood and the city. A multi-sited comparative approach is taken in studying local action in five important cities (Bangkok, Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore and Taipei) in Pacific Asia. With site selection in these five cities guided by local experts, neighbourhood issues associated with the fieldsites are explored through interviews with a variety of stakeholders involved in neighourhood building and change. The book enables comparisons across a number of key issues confronting the city: heritage (Bangkok and Taipei), local community involved provisioning of amenities (Seoul and Singapore), placemaking versus place marketing (Bangkok and Hong Kong). Cities are becoming increasingly important as centers for politics, citizen engagement and governance. The collaborative efforts city governments establish with local communities become an important way to address the liveability of cities.
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Neighbourhoods for the City
    • 1 Co-operative Elements in Neighbourhood Collective Action
    • 2 Neighbourhood Interests and Social Movements
      • Placemaking
      • Neighbourhoods for the City
  • 2. The Political Economy of Cities in Pacific Asia
    • 1 Cities as Engines for Growth and Loci for Consumption
    • 2 Cities as Repositories of Culture and Heritage
    • 3 Cities as stages for political action
    • 4 Democratic Movements and State Decentralization of Power, and Post Political tendencies
    • 5 Relationships between State and Local Neighbourhoods
    • 6 Urban Developmental Pressures on Neigbourhoods
    • 7 Summary and Introduction to the Five Fieldsite Cities
  • 3. The Logic of Comparisons in Multi-Sited Research Designs
    • 1 Introduction
    • 2 Three Multi-Sited Approaches
      • a Grounded Approaches
      • b Analytic Ethnography
      • c Comparative Case Approach
    • 3 Study Guidelines
      • a Research Direction: Guided by the literature
      • b Site Selection: Informed by local researchers
      • c Sites and the Link to the Larger Country Context
      • d A Note on Single versus Multiple Cases
      • e A Note on the Informant’s Role
  • 4. Sungmisan: The Power of Village Social Enterprises
    • 1 Significance of Sungmisan
    • 2 Sungmisan and Its Village Businesses
      • a Sungmisan High School
      • b Sungmisan Dure/Doorae Co-op
      • c Sungmisan Community Kitchen
      • d Doesalim, Sungmisan’s Resale Shop
      • e Little Tree, Sungmisan’s café
    • 3 Village Business Projects and Their Importance to the Neighbourhood
    • 4 Sungmisan and Its Relevance to the City
    • 5 Discussion and Summary
    • 6 Looking Ahead
  • 5. Mahakan: Neighbourhood Heritage Curation Attempts
    • 1 Significance of Mahakan
    • 2 Rattanakosin as the Civic and Cultural District of Thailand
    • 3 Pom Mahakan: People of the Fort
    • 4 Discussion and Summary
      • b The Value of External NGO Support in Weak Communities
      • b The Noise from Multiple Stakeholders
    • 5 Looking Ahead
  • 6. Tangbu: Saving the Old Sugar Warehouses
    • 1 The Significance of Tangbu
    • 2 Creating Tangbu Cultural Park
    • 3 The Neighbourhood’s Role in Constructing Heritage
    • 4 The Role of the City Government
    • 5 Looking Ahead
  • 7. Langham Place: Mega Project-Led Inner-City Regeneration
    • 1 The Significance of Langham Place
    • 2 Mong Kok and the Langham Place Redevelopment Project
      • a Bird Street
      • b Cooked-Food Stalls
      • c Minibus Companies
    • 3 Inserting Community Spaces into Langham Place
      • a The Land Development Corporation and Its Role in Rebuilding the City
      • b Do Government-Provided Amenities Matter?
    • 4 Looking Ahead
  • 8. Tampines Central: Government-Resident Partnerships at Work
    • 1 The Significance of Tampines Central
    • 2 Government Initiatives at Community Bonding
    • 3 Analysing the Consequences of Intervention in Tampines Central
    • 4 Looking Forward
  • 9. Neighbourhood Action, Metropolitan Politics,and City Building
    • 1 The Social Life of the Neighbourhood
    • 2 Neighbourhood and Urban Governance
      • a External (National and Metropolitan) Effects on the Neighbourhood
      • b Neighbourhood Activism Effects on the City and Beyond
    • 3 The Neighbourhood Social Amenity as the Fruit of Neighbourhood Activism: Its Formation, Attraction, and Regulation
    • 4 Metropolitanization of Politics
    • 5 The Different Faces of the City
  • Index
  • List of Figures and Tables
    • Figure 2.1 Field site cities in Pacific Asia
    • Figure 4.1 Sungmisan field site in Seoul
    • Figure 4.2 Sungmisan School Library
    • Figure 4.3 Sungmisan School children commemorating the protest against the acquisition of Sungmisan Hill
    • Figure 4.4 Sungmisan Dure Co-op (두레생협) Supermarket
    • Figure 4.5 Sungmisan Community Kitchen food preparation (left) and a kitchen assistant holding a cookbook with her recipes (right)
    • Figure 4.6 Doesalim Resale Shop
    • Figure 4.7 Little Tree Café
    • Figure 5.1 Rattanakosin Island in Bangkok
    • Figure 5.2 Museum of Siam, formerly the Ministry of Commerce site
    • Figure 5.3 Pedestrian walkway leading to Fort Sumen with a view of Rama VIII Bridge
    • Figure 5.4 Fort Sumen Park
    • Figure 5.5 Enhanced view of Loha Prasad after redevelopment
    • Figure 5.6 Community yard at the Mahakan site
    • Figure 5.7 Location of the houses in relation to the “clean” fort wall
    • Figure 6.1 Tangbu Cultural Park field site in Taipei
    • Figure 6.2 Ming Hwa Yuan Gallery in Building C
    • Figure 6.3 Residents using the cultural school site
    • Figure 7.1 Langham Place field site in Mong Kok, Hong Kong
    • Figure 7.2 Mong Kok Cooked-Food Market in the Community Annex (Mong Kok Complex)
    • Figure 7.3 Minibus Terminal at the side of the five-star Cordis Hotel on Shanghai Street
    • Figure 7.4 Hong Kong Playground Association office overlooking Langham Place
    • Figure 8.1 Tampines Central field site in Singapore
    • Figure 8.2 Neighbourhood focus group discussion at work
    • Figure 8.3 Site 1: Storage area for the void deck for Parkview RC at Block 857
    • Figure 8.4 Site 2: Trellis along the linkway
    • Figure 8.5 Site 3: Mini hardcourt (foreground) as the latest addition to the outdoor play area
    • Figure 8.6 Site 4: Café in the background at the Palmwalk resident committee social area at Block 839
    • Figure 8.7 Site 5: Three cement chairs where pedestrians can rest before or after crossing the street

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