1st Edition
Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia The Social Production of Civic Spaces
List of figures List of tables List of contributors Preface Acknowledgements Copyright Acknowledgements 1. Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia Mike Douglass, K.C. Ho and Giok Ling Ooi 2. Civil Society for Itself and in the Public Sphere –– Comparative Research on Globalization, Cities and Civic Space in Pacific Asia Mike Douglass 3. Governing Cities: Civic Spaces, Civil Society and Urban Politics K.C. Ho 4. State-Society Relations, the City and Civic Space Giok Ling Ooi 5. Chinese Public Space: A Brief Account Heng Chye Kiang 6. Mosques as a Type of Civic Space in Turbulent Times: A Case Study of Globalizing Kuala Lumpur Morshidi Sirat and Atikullah Hj. Abdullah 7. Civic Space and Integration in Chinese Peri-Urban Villages Michael Leaf and Samantha Anderson 8. The Pavement as Civic Space: History and Dynamics in the City of Hanoi David Koh 9. Changing Community Relations and Emerging Civic Spaces in Shanghai Hanlong Lu 10. From Street Corners to Plaza: The Production of Festive Civic Space in Central Seoul Myungrae Cho 11. Transient Civic Spaces in Jakarta Demopolis Merlyna Lim 12. Creating New Civic Realms in a Global City-State Limin Hee 13. Bangkok’s Sanam Luang (The Royal Ground): From a Historic Plaza to a Civic Space Pornparn Boonchuen 14. International Meetings and Dissent: The city as political space for global issues Joseph Boski
Biography
Mike Douglass is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and the Director of the Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawaii, USA.
K.C. Ho is Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.
Giok Ling Ooi is Professor at the National Institute of Education at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is also Adjunct Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies.
