Ananya Roy & Aihwa Ong 
Worlding Cities 
Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global

Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian
urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian
models and practices of urbanization. It includes important
contributions from a respected group of scholars across a range of
generations, disciplines, and sites of study.

* Describes the new theoretical framework of
‚worlding‘

* Substantially expands and updates the themes of capital and
culture

* Includes a unique collection of authors across generations,
disciplines, and sites of study

* Demonstrates how references to Asian power, success, and
hegemony make possible urban development and limit urban
politics

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii

Notes on Contributors viii

Series Editors‘ Preface xiii

Preface and Acknowledgments xv

Introduction Worlding Cities, or the Art of Being Global 1

Aihwa Ong

Part I Modeling 27

1 Singapore as Model: Planning Innovations, Knowledge Experts
29

Chua Beng Huat

2 Urban Modeling and Contemporary Technologies of City-Building
in China: The Production of Regimes of Green Urbanisms 55

Lisa Hoffman

3 Planning Privatopolis: Representation and Contestation in the
Development of Urban Integrated Mega-Projects 77

Gavin Shatkin

4 Ecological Urbanization: Calculating Value in an Age of Global
Climate Change 98

Shannon May

Part II Inter-Referencing 127

5 Retuning a Provincialized Middle Class in Asia’s Urban
Postmodern: The Case of Hong Kong 129

Helen F. Siu

6 Cracks in the Façade: Landscapes of Hope and Desire in
Dubai 160

Chad Haines

7 Asia in the Mix: Urban Form and Global Mobilities – Hong
Kong, Vancouver, Dubai 182

Glen Lowry and Eugene Mc Cann

8 Hyperbuilding: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Hyperspace of
Sovereignty 205

Aihwa Ong

Part III New Solidarities 227

9 Speculating on the Next World City 229

Michael Goldman

10 The Blockade of the World-Class City: Dialectical Images of
Indian Urbanism 259

Ananya Roy

11 Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi
279

D. Asher Ghertner

Conclusion Postcolonial Urbanism: Speed, Hysteria, Mass Dreams
307

Ananya Roy

Index 336

Über den Autor

Ananya Roy is Professor of City and Regional Planning and
Co-Director of Global Metropolitan Studies at the University of
California, Berkeley. Her most recent book is Poverty Capital:
Microfinance and the Making of Development (2010).

Aihwa Ong is Professor of Socio-cultural Anthropology at
the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent
publications are Privatizing China, Socialism from Afar
(2008) and Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate
(2010).