Urban Development in Southeast Asia

Bibliographic Data

ID19928348
AuthorsRita Padawangi (0000-0002-8050-7711, Singapore University of Social Sciences, corresponding author)
Year2022
Publication date2022-07-31
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueUrban Development in Southeast Asia (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781108669108
OpenAlexW4283319687
Open LibraryOL37996116M
ISBN9781108669108
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited79

Urbanization as a process is rife with inequality, in Southeast Asia as anywhere else, but resistance and contestation persist on the ground. In this element, the author sets out to achieve three goals: 1) to examine the political nature of urban development; 2) to scrutinize the implications of power inequality in urban development discussions; and 3) to highlight topical and methodological contributions to urban studies from Southeast Asia. The key to a robust understanding is groundedness: knowledge about the everyday realities of urban life that are hard to see on the surface but dominate how the city functions, with particular attention to human agency and the political life of marginalized groups. Ignoring politics in research on urbanization essentially perpetuates the power inequities in urban development; this element thus focuses not just on Southeast Asian cities and urbanization per se, but also on critical perspectives on patterns and processes in their development

Agency (philosophy) · Civil engineering · Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Element (criminal law) · Ethnology · Everyday life · Geography · Inequality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Resistance (ecology) · Social science · Sociology · Southeast asia · Urban planning · Urban politics · Urbanization · Asian Studies and History · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Urban Studies

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