Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia : Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei beyond Developmental Urbanization / ed. by Jeffrey Hou, Blaz KRIZNIK, Im Sik Cho. - 1 online resource (316 p.) - Asian Cities ; 17 .

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia: An Introduction -- 2 Walking Tours and Community Heritage in Singapore. Civic Activism in the Making in Queenstown and Geylang -- 3 Resistance and Resilience . A Case Study of Rebuilding the Choi Yuen Village in Hong Kong -- 4 Urban Planning, Public Interest, and Spatial Justice . A Case Study of the Lo-Sheng Sanatorium Preservation Movement in Taipei -- 5 Placemaking as Social Learning . Taipei’s Open Green Programme as Pedagogical Civic Urbanism -- 6 Hong Kong’s Urban Renewal Fund . A Step towards Citizen-driven Placemaking? -- 7 Re-emerging Civic Urbanism . The Evolving State–Civil Society Relations in Community Building in Seoul -- 8 A Shifting Paradigm of Urban Regeneration in Seoul? A Case Study of Citizen Participation in Haebangchon Urban Regeneration Project -- 9 Building Communities through Neighbourhood-based Participatory Planning in Singapore -- 10 Beyond the Sunday Spectacle . Foreign Domestic Workers and Emergent Civic Urbanisms in Hong Kong -- 11 Holding Space, Making Place . Nurturing Emergent Solidarities within New Food Systems in Singapore -- 12 Conclusion: Civic Urbanisms and Urban Governance in Asia and Beyond -- Index -- Publications / Global Asia

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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.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9789048553051

10.1515/9789048553051 doi


Civic improvement--Asia.
Community development--Asia.
Political participation--Asia.
Social change--Asia.
Asian Studies.
Contemporary Society.
East Asia and North East Asia.
East Asia, Far East.
Heritage Studies.
Human geography.
Society and culture: general.
Sociology and Social History.
Urban Cultures.
ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning.

Civic urbanism, Collaborative placemaking, Community building, Grassroots advocacy, Heritage activism.

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