In parts of Asia, citizens are increasingly involved in shaping their neighbourhoods and cities, representing a significant departure from earlier state-led or market-driven urban development. These emerging civic urbanisms are a result of an evolving relationship between the state and civil society. The contributions in this volume provide critical insights into how the changing state–civil society relationship affects the recent surge of civic urbanism in Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei, and the authors present eighteen cases of grassroots activism and resistance, collaboration and placemaking, neighbourhood community building, and self-organization and commoning in these cities. Exploring how citizen participation and state–civil society partnerships contribute to more resilient and participatory neighbourhoods and cities, the authors use the concept of civic urbanisms not only as a conceptual framework to understand the ongoing social and urban change but as an aspirational model of urban governance for cities in Asia and beyond.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia: An Introduction
- Im Sik Cho, Blaž Križnik, Jeffrey Hou
- 2 Walking Tours and Community Heritage in Singapore
- Civic Activism in the Making in Queenstown and Geylang
- 3 Resistance and Resilience
- A Case Study of Rebuilding the Choi Yuen Village in Hong Kong
- 4 Urban Planning, Public Interest, and Spatial Justice
- A Case Study of the Lo-Sheng Sanatorium Preservation Movement in Taipei
- 5 Placemaking as Social Learning
- Taipei’s Open Green Programme as Pedagogical Civic Urbanism
- 6 Hong Kong’s Urban Renewal Fund
- A Step towards Citizen-driven Placemaking?
- Melissa Cate Christ and Hendrik Tieben
- 7 Re-emerging Civic Urbanism
- The Evolving State–Civil Society Relations in Community Building in Seoul
- 8 A Shifting Paradigm of Urban Regeneration in Seoul?
- A Case Study of Citizen Participation in Haebangchon Urban Regeneration Project
- Taehee Lee and Sukyoung Han
- 9 Building Communities through Neighbourhood-based Participatory Planning in Singapore
- Jan H. M. Lim, Larry Yeung, and Pieter Van den Broeck
- 10 Beyond the Sunday Spectacle
- Foreign Domestic Workers and Emergent Civic Urbanisms in Hong Kong
- Cecilia L. Chu and Marta Catalán Eraso
- 11 Holding Space, Making Place
- Nurturing Emergent Solidarities within New Food Systems in Singapore
- Huiying Ng, Monika Rut, Vivian Lee, Marcus Koe, Chingwei Chen
- 12 Conclusion: Civic Urbanisms and Urban Governance in Asia and Beyond
- Im Sik Cho, Blaž Križnik, Jeffrey Hou
- Index
- List of Figures and Tables
- Figures
- Figure 1.1 Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei in comparison
- Figure 2.1 Queenstown and Geylang neighbourhoods, Singapore
- Figure 2.2 My Community’s My Alexandra Heritage Tour takes participants through multiple narrative themes curated by former residents, firefighters, and volunteer guides
- Figure 2.3 Geylang Adventures’ founder and tour guide, Cai Yinzhou (second from the left), takes participants through the streets and back alleys of Geylang
- Figure 3.1 The location of the original Choi Yuen Village and the new village site
- Figure 3.2 Community resistance and resilience
- Figure 3.3 Old Choi Yuen Village—‘Defending Housing Rights’
- Figure 3.4 New CYV – Fields next to Houses
- Figure 3.5 New CYV – Gardens inside House Allotment
- Figure 4.1 The overlapping locations of the Lo-Sheng Sanatorium and the Taipei MRT depot
- Figure 4.2 A typical dwelling unit in Lo-Sheng Sanatorium
- Figure 4.3 Top: The remaining Lo-Sheng campus in January 2007; middle: the Lo-Sheng campus based on the 41.6% preservation proposal; bottom: the Lo-Sheng campus based on the 90% preservation proposal
- Figure 4.4 The second overpass
- Figure 4.5 The first petition march held by Lo-Sheng residents and Youth for Lo-Sheng in December 2004. Four main requests (as shown on the banner hanging on the gate) were made in the petition: (1) securing civil rights for Lo-Sheng residents against fo
- Figure 5.1 Locations of Open Green project sites in Taipei
- Figure 5.2 Rain Harvesting Park: An early pilot project in collaborative placemaking
- Figure 5.3 The White Hut involves users and volunteers both locally and from afar
- Figure 5.4 Lane 344 – A project that led to expanding collaboration in the neighbourhood
- Figure 5.5 The original ParkUp site: from temporary open space to a design brand
- Figure 6.1 Locations of Funding Scheme projects (2012-2015, 2015-2018, and after 2018) and the URA projects (gazetted before 2012, 2012-2015, and 2015-2019)
- Figure 6.2 The shop-front of the To Kwa Wan House of Stories, 2018
- Figure 6.3 Workshop with community members, initiated by St. James Settlement (‘To Home’ House of Stories) co-organized with DOMAT at Hung Fook Street in To Kwa Wan, 2017
- Figure 6.4 To Kwa Wan Community Dining Room studio space; Design workshops were held on the street in front of the studio
- Figure 6.5 Co-design workshop at Magic Lanes with residents and students of Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2018
- Figure 7.1 Selected community movements and neighbourhoods in comparison
- Figure 7.2 Anti-eviction and housing rights struggle in Haengdang-dong, 1994
- Figure 7.3 Seongmisan Maeul Festival, 2007
- Figure 7.4 Community workshop in Seowon Maeul, 2009
- Figure 7.5 Samdeok Maeul RCSC annual meeting, 2018
- Figure 8.1 Process of the URP
- Figure 8.2 Distribution of buildings in Haebangchon (using registered building data until 2016)
- Figure 8.3 The appearance of buildings in Haebangchon in 2017
- Figure 8.4 The overall governance structure initially designed by the SMG
- Figure 8.5 The organization structure of Haebangchon Urban Regeneration Support Center (in March 2017)
- Figure 9.1 Sites of the four NRP projects
- Figure 9.2 An overview of the four NRP projects and P!D’s involvement
- Figure 9.3a and 9.3b A pop-up engagement activity and workshop with residents
- Figure 9.4 Actor-institution dynamics in the four NRP projects
- Figure 10.1 Beauty-styling classes offered by Mandiri Bank at Knoll Hill Pavilion, Victoria Park, 2020
- Figure 10.2 Poster of one of Shandra’s events, 2019
- Figure 10.3 A model wearing one of Malicsi’s upcycled fashion designs, Central, Hong Kong, 2018
- Figure 10.4a and 10.4b (Left) Arie Sanjaya’s winning upcycled fashion design, 2019; (right) ‘Daur Ulang’ upcycled fashion show in Victoria Park, organized by Shandra Love
- Figure 11.1 Sites of Foodscape Collective, Habitat Collective, and Project Black Gold.
- Figure 11.2 Boon Lay Nature Garden, originally named the Biodiverse Edible Garden at Jurong Central Park
- Figure 11.3 At work on the market garden.
- Figure 11.4 Making compost, Bukit Gombak, Singapore
- Tables
- Table 1.1 Population growth in Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei
- Table 4.1 Examining different urban discourses using the principles of justice for planning
- Table 4.2 Major events occurring during the Lo-Sheng Preservation Movement
- Table 6.1 Structure of Urban Renewal Fund
- Table 7.1 Comparison of community building in Seoul
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