Inside the Transforming Urban Asia: Processes, Policies and Public Actions

This book is collection of articles on the rapid ongoing transformations within the Asian cities in the period when Asia is rising economically. It is about the processes of these transformations, State Policy in support of these transformations, exclusions and inclusions in therein and contestations and resistance by those getting adversely affected by the changes in urban space. While there are dramatic changes in the city structure and improvement in infrastructure in the Asian cities, there are also serve exclusions observed as in case of Indian cities or increase in equities and unwinding of former inclusive processes as in case of Chinese cities. The articles in the book look at the visions of city development, infrastructure development and investments, financing, spatial segmentation and land politics as a consequence of real estate based lobby’s pressure or real economic growth policies, emerging inequities, role of state, changing practices of governance and new social movements and resistance to displacements by whose life space is being threatened by the transformations in the Asian cities.