SUSTAINABLE CITIES IN ASIA (Hardcover)

Preface, Simon Joss and Robert Cowley

Introduction, Li Yu and Federico Caprotti

SECTION I: THE SUSTAINABLE CITY IN ASIA

1. Unlocking urban trajectories: planning for environmentally just transitions in Asia, Caren Levy, Adriana Allen, Vanesa Castan Broto and Linda Westman

2. The story does not remain the same: multi-scalar perspectives on sustainable urban development in Asia and Hong Kong, Federico Cugurullo

3. Does the Asian property market work for sustainable urban developments?, Fatih Eren

4. Migration and urbanization in contemporary Asia: addressing urban inequalities and promoting social sustainability, Megha Amrith

5. Let’s Focus on connections: reading Chinese eco-cities from a relational, multi-scalar perspective, I-Chun Catherine Chang

6. Green as urban spectacle in China, Xuefei Ren

7. Property-led urban growth, institutional change and urban sustainability: the case of China in an international perspective, Yunqing Xu

8. The impacts of high-speed rail on Shanghai’s suburban communities: social sustainability and environmental justice, Shuping Zhang and Zhu Qian

9. The Kathputli Conundrum: slum redevelopment and the institutionalisation of unsustainability, Anubhav Pradhan

10. Sustainable cities in South Asian countries: a politico-cultural perspective, Dillip Kumar Das

11. Buying (into) sustainability: technocratic environmentalism in Abu Dhabi, Surajit Chakravarty

12. Songdo: the hype and decline of world’s first smart city, Seungho Yoo

13. Challenging the eco-city: residents’ perceptions of social sustainability in Tianjin Eco-City, China, Federico Caprotti and Ziyue Gong

SECTION III: SHAPING THE SUSTAINABLE CITY IN ASIA

14. Sustainable community development in Taipei, Taiwan, Yung-Jaan Lee

15. Can mega events lead to sustainable urban development? The case of Beijing and Guangzhou, Yawei Chen and Lu Wang

16. A changing cultural narrative of citizenship, urbanism and cycling in Indian cities, Linda Carroli and Mirko Guaralda

17. A difficult birth: creating Seoul, the 21^st century sustainable city, Sofia T. Shwayri

18. Changing approaches to community participation for social sustainability: neighbourhood planning in Singapore and Seoul, Im Sik Cho

19. Low carbon communities, energy policy and energy democracy in Japan, Thomas Feldhoff

20. Smart City strategies towards sustainable transformation of China’s industrial parks: the experience of Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou, China, Joon Sik Kim and Xiangyi Wang

21. ‘Sustainable’ urban habitats in Shanghai, Tyler Rooker

22. The transnational search of Chinese eco-city projects: historical legacies, authoritarian political operations, and socio-economic dynamics, Shiuh-Shen Chien

23. Urban transformation and city branding in the Greater Pearl River Delta, Martin de Jong, Yawei Chen, Miaoxi Zhao and Haiyan Lu