The future of cities in China is becoming increasingly important, not just within China but
globally. China's urban population has grown from about 200 million in 1980 to about 800 …

While green urbanism has been discussed extensively in the urban studies literature, less
attention has been paid to the micropolitics of its cross-border transplantation. Using the …

Engaging with reflections on improper urban vocabularies, this article proposes a
translational turn to foreground dialogues—rather than equivalences—between languages …

Compressed development experiences, especially in Asia, have translated into expectations
for 'fast cities' where time and space are compressed to materialise 'real'Asia experiences …

This chapter on Asian urbanism begins by examining how Asian urbanism can be seen as
both actually existing and imagined, taking into consideration the ways in which Asian …

One of the major contributions of the postcolonial critique of urbanism is the call for de-
centring knowledge production, especially the emphasis on the need for 'theorising'from the …

This intervention is by a collective of scholars working on various facets of urbanisation in
Asia. Focusing on the notion of arrangements/re‐arrangements, it seeks to extend the …

The micropolitics involved in urbanising land is yet to be well illustrated in urban and
development studies. With the case of Dahongmen in Beijing, this paper explores the …

This chapter traces the main policies and actions to erase the urban village in Beijing. Based
on site visits to the representative pre-and post-demolition urban villages in Beijing's …

China's development strategies have long been premised on an institutionalized urban-rural
divide, on the basis of which the population is governed. This urban-rural divide is being …