Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Neighbourhoods for the City
- 2 The Political Economy of Cities in Pacific Asia
- 3 The Logic of Comparisons in Multi-Sited Research Designs
- 4 Sungmisan: The Power of Village Social Enterprises
- 5 Mahakan: Neighbourhood Heritage Curation Attempts
- 6 Tangbu: Saving the Old Sugar Warehouses
- 7 Langham Place: Mega Project-Led Inner-City Regeneration
- 8 Tampines Central: Government-Resident Partnerships at Work
- 9 Neighbourhood Action, Metropolitan Politics, and City Building
- Index
- Publications / Asian Cities
1 - Neighbourhoods for the City
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2020
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Neighbourhoods for the City
- 2 The Political Economy of Cities in Pacific Asia
- 3 The Logic of Comparisons in Multi-Sited Research Designs
- 4 Sungmisan: The Power of Village Social Enterprises
- 5 Mahakan: Neighbourhood Heritage Curation Attempts
- 6 Tangbu: Saving the Old Sugar Warehouses
- 7 Langham Place: Mega Project-Led Inner-City Regeneration
- 8 Tampines Central: Government-Resident Partnerships at Work
- 9 Neighbourhood Action, Metropolitan Politics, and City Building
- Index
- Publications / Asian Cities
Summary
Abstract
As the introduction to the book “Neighbourhoods for the City” takes a broad sweep of the urban studies literature to highlight the issues that are linked to the process of neighbourhood mobilization: relationships between neighbours; the tension between moving versus staying; placemaking; and the organization of local interests. Externally, the possibility of a collaboration between the neighbourhood and the city government exists and such partnerships are important for sustaining local action. Following Castells (1983), we see another possibility of how social movements will enlarge the local capacity for action. The factors enabling local participation at the neighbourhood level allow a conceptualization of neighbourhoods as the third way (Fallov, 2010) to city building, an alternative to state and market alternatives. The neighbourhood-based approach may play a special role in building a more diverse and liveable city.
Keywords: neighbourhood interests, placemaking, social movements, neighbourhood relations, urban partnerships, neighbourhood as community
Neighbourhoods for the City represents a systematic attempt to understand the Asian city from the viewpoint of its neighbourhoods. By focusing on the neighbourhood, the book incorporates three distinctive features. The first is an approach that examines the types of relationships in which the neighbourhood are implicated, including, most importantly, their relationship with the city government. In particular, I will examine why city governments need to manage the social and political dimensions of their relationships with city residents and not just focus on managing the economic interests of the city. It is at this level that Asia becomes meaningful in the analysis. In particular, East Asia is a region of sustained economic development. This implicates its largest cities, which are the engines of growth and also of middle-class consumption. It also places an enormous strain on its neighbourhoods because of the pressures of gentrification and redevelopment, as well as the influx of new migrants to the city. At the same time, East Asia is also a region marked by political change in the form of democratic developments and pressures to decentralize authority from the central state. This, in turn, makes city governments more receptive to the aspirations and demands of its neighbourhoods.
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- Neighbourhoods for the City in Pacific Asia , pp. 15 - 34Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2019