Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia: Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei beyond Developmental Urbanization

Im Sik Cho (Curatore)

Blaz KRIZNIK (Curatore)

Amsterdam University Press, 2022

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.

• Curatore: Im Sik Cho, Blaz KRIZNIK
• Editore: Amsterdam University Press
• Collana: Asian Cities
• Anno: 2022
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 314 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 740 gr.
• EAN: 9789463728546

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