{"id":822,"date":"2016-11-28T15:27:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T23:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/asianurb\/?p=822"},"modified":"2019-03-17T21:21:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T04:21:36","slug":"messy-urbanism-understanding-the-other-cities-of-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/asianurb\/messy-urbanism-understanding-the-other-cities-of-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Messy Urbanism: Understanding the ‘Other’ Cities of Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edited by Manish Chalana and Jeffrey Hou<\/strong><\/p>\n

Errata — May 2018<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Revised Acknowledgments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Seemingly messy and chaotic, the landscapes and urban life of cities in Asia possess an order and hierarchy that often challenges understanding and appreciation. With contributions by a cross-disciplinary group of authors, Messy Urbanism: Understanding the \u201cOther\u201d Cities of Asia <\/em>examines a range of cases in Asia to explore the social and institutional politics of urban formality and the contexts in which this \u201cmessiness\u201d emerges or is constructed. The book is a result of collaboration between faculty in the Center of Asian Urbanism at UW and colleagues in Asia and North America. It brings a distinct perspective to the broader patterns of informal urban orders and processes as well as their interplay with formalized systems and mechanisms. It also raises questions about the production of cities, cityscapes, and citizenship.<\/p>\n

University of Hong Kong Press 2016<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe rubric of \u2018messy urbanism\u2019 is a productive antidote to the binaries that have limited a productive discussion about urbanism in Asia. This book is a significant contribution in understanding the inherent nature of the built environments in aspiring democracies\u2014an emergent urbanism that seamlessly embraces the incremental, temporal, and ephemeral as given conditions in the formation of Asian cities.\u201d\u00a0\u2014Rahul Mehrotra, Architect \/ Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard University<\/p>\n

\u201cThis book is of a high quality, with multiple examples from Hong Kong and China. The authors have covered the topic admirably and I expect the book to attract a wide readership.\u201d\u00a0\u2014Vinit Mukhija, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Urban Planning, UCLA<\/p>\n

Table of Content<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 1. Untangling the \u201cMessy\u201d Asian City<\/strong>
\n\u2014Jeffrey Hou and Manish Chalana<\/p>\n

Chapter 2.<\/strong> A History of Messiness: Order and Resilience on the Sidewalks of Ho Chi Minh City<\/strong>
\n\u2014Annette M. Kim<\/p>\n

Chapter 3.<\/strong> The Order of Messiness: Notes from an Indonesian City<\/strong>
\n\u2014Abidin Kusno<\/p>\n

Chapter 4. Concrete Jungle or Geocultural Cipher? Reading Lineage into the Perils and Prospects of Metro Manila<\/strong>
\n\u2014Jos\u00e9 Edgardo A. Gomez Jr.<\/p>\n

Chapter 5. The Royal Field (Sanam Luang): Bangkok\u2019s Polysemic Urban Palimpsest<\/strong>
\n\u2014Koompong Noobanjong<\/p>\n

Chapter 6. Shinjuku \u65b0\u5bbf: Messy Urbanism at the Metabolic Crossroads<\/strong>
\n\u2014Ken Tadashi Oshima<\/p>\n

Chapter 7. Little Manila: The Other Central of Hong Kong<\/strong>
\n\u2014Daisy Tam<\/p>\n

Chapter 8. Neutral Equilibrium in Public Space: Mong Kok Flower Market in Hong Kong<\/strong>
\n\u2014Kin Wai Michael Siu and Mingjie Zhu<\/p>\n

Chapter 9. Making Sense of the Order in the Disorder in Delhi\u2019s Kathputti Colony<\/strong>
\n\u2014Manish Chalana and Susmita Rishi<\/p>\n

Chapter 10. Messy Work: Transnational Collaboration in Chandigarh<\/strong>
\n\u2014Vikram\u0101ditya Prak\u0101sh<\/p>\n

Chapter 11. Everyday Urban Flux: Temporary Urbanism in East Asia as Insurgent Planning<\/strong>
\n\u2014Jeffrey Hou<\/p>\n

Chapter 12. Messy Urbanism and Space for Community Empowerment in China<\/strong>
\n\u2014Daniel Benjamin Abramson<\/p>\n

Epilogue: Sites of Questions, Contestations, and Resistance<\/strong>
\n\u2014Manish Chalana and Jeffrey Hou<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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