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Developmentalist Cities addresses the missing urban story in research on East Asian developmentalism and the missing developmentalist story in studies of East Asian urbanization. It does so by promoting inter-disciplinary research into the subject of urban developmentalism: a term that editors Jamie Doucette and Bae-Gyoon Park use to highlight the particular nature of the urban as a site of and for developmentalist intervention. The contributors to this volume deepen this concept by examining the legacy of how Cold War and post-Cold War geopolitical economy, spaces of exception (from special zones to industrial districts), and diverse forms of expertise have helped produce urban space in East Asia. Contributors: Carolyn Cartier, Christina Kim Chilcote, Young Jin Choi, Jamie Doucette, Eli Friedman, Jim Glassman, Heidi Gottfried, Laam Hae, Jinn-yuh Hsu, Iam Chong Ip, Jin-Bum Jang, Soo-Hyun Kim, Jana M. Kleibert, Kah Wee Lee, Seung-Ook Lee, Christina Moon, Bae-Gyoon Park, Hyun Bang Shin.

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Author:   Jamie Doucette ,  Bae-Gyoon Park
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   130
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9789004339484

ISBN 10:   9004339485
Pages:   364
Publication Date:   06 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

 Acknowledgements  List of Illustrations  Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Interrogating Urban Developmentalism in East Asia  Jamie Doucette and Bae-Gyoon Park 2 Heavy Industries and Second Tier City Growth in South Korea: A Geopolitical Economic Analysis of the “Four Core Plants Plan”  Young-Jin Choi and Jim Glassman 3 Eclipse of the Rising Sun? The Once and Future Tokyo  Heidi Gottfried 4 The Biopolitics of Urbanization in China: Managing Migration and Access to Education  Eli Friedman 5 Zoning Urbanization: The Hsinchu Technopolis as an Enclave of Modernity in Taiwan  Jinn-yuh Hsu 6 New Spaces of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Luxury Condominiums in Metro Manila  Jana M. Kleibert 7 The Gangnam-ization of Korean Urban Ideology  Bae-Gyoon Park and Jin-bum Jang 8 Volatile Territorialities: North Korea’s Special Economic Zones and the Geopolitical Economy of Urban Developmentalism  Jamie Doucette and Seung-Ook Lee 9 From ‘Special Zones’ to Cities and City-regions in China  Carolyn Cartier 10 Waiting and Remembering: Economy of Anticipation and Materiality of Aspiration in Dandong, China  Christina Kim Chilcote 11 The Developmental State, Speculative Urbanization and the Politics of Displacement in Gentrifying Seoul  Hyun Bang Shin and Soo-Hyun Kim 12 The Fall of the Hong Kong Dream: New Paths of Urban Gentrification in Hong Kong  Iam-chong Ip 13 Planning as Institutionalized Informality: State, Casino Capitalists and the Production of Space in Macau  Kah-Wee Lee 14 Translating a Fast Policy: Place Marketing and the Neoliberal Turn of Critical Urban Studies in South Korea  Laam Hae 15 Fashioning the City: Trans-Pacific and Inter-Asian Connections in the Global Garment Industry  Christina Moon  Index

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"[...] [R]esulted from several years of interdisciplinary workshops and collaborative works, Developmental Cities? Interrogating Urban Developmentalism is a milestone for those who study East Asian cities or who are interested in the nexus between geopolitics and urban processes. After reading this book, one will acquire an in-depth understanding of the complex histories of cities in East Asia. Moreover, the volume also has the ability to expand the debate beyond East Asian cities, stimulating dialogue with cities in other regions in order to demonstrate how they are linked based on a complex of geopolitical relations. This process will help us to theorize the urban more from non-Western perspectives. Indeed, this is not a simple task and it requires continued efforts. This volume, however, is a valuable contribution toward these efforts. — Do Young Oh , London School of Economics and Political Science, in: Urban Geography, 27 May 2019 ""This original and provocative collection is the first critically to interrogate the nexus of urbanism and developmentalism in East Asia, mobilizing in the process the kaleidoscopic lens that is geopolitical economy. Highly recommended, the book inaugurates new ways of thinking about cities, urban theory, and (late) developmental states, both within the region and beyond."" — Jamie Peck, Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy and Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia ""While each chapter shows a distinctive urban process in the individual context of East Asian countries, this collection demonstrates the usefulness of urban developmentalism as a process that cannot be easily unpacked based on existing models of urbanization in Western countries. This book ultimately celebrates the vitality of scholarship that has called for methodological and conceptual innovation in order to understand East Asian cities as form, process, and imaginary."" — Choi, Byung-Doo, University of Daegu, Co-Founder of the East Asian Regional Conference on Alternative Geography ""Ranging in topic from the “Gangnam-ization” of Korean urban space to the management of migrant populations in China, each essay in this collection is a fascinating and insightful case study in its own right. Taken as a whole, Developmentalist Cities? breaks important new ground by connecting the afterlives of Cold War developmentalism to new forms of neoliberal urbanism in East Asia. As these rich, interdisciplinary essays demonstrate, we cannot understand our urban present without understanding the histories, political economies and contested practices of developmentalist cities. This book is a timely and significant intervention into today’s critical debates around urban growth and migration, gentrification and globalization, and the cities, zones and regions that mediate them."" — Jini Kim Watson, New York University, author of The New Asian City: Three Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form"

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Interrogating Urban Developmentalism in East Asia Jamie Doucette and Bae-Gyoon Park 2 Heavy Industries and Second Tier City Growth in South Korea: A Geopolitical Economic Analysis of the Four Core Plants Plan Young-Jin Choi and Jim Glassman 3 Eclipse of the Rising Sun? The Once and Future Tokyo Heidi Gottfried 4 The Biopolitics of Urbanization in China: Managing Migration and Access to Education Eli Friedman 5 Zoning Urbanization: The Hsinchu Technopolis as an Enclave of Modernity in Taiwan Jinn-yuh Hsu 6 New Spaces of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Luxury Condominiums in Metro Manila Jana M. Kleibert 7 The Gangnam-ization of Korean Urban Ideology Bae-Gyoon Park and Jin-bum Jang 8 Volatile Territorialities: North Korea's Special Economic Zones and the Geopolitical Economy of Urban Developmentalism Jamie Doucette and Seung-Ook Lee 9 From `Special Zones' to Cities and City-regions in China Carolyn Cartier 10 Waiting and Remembering: Economy of Anticipation and Materiality of Aspiration in Dandong, China Christina Kim Chilcote 11 The Developmental State, Speculative Urbanization and the Politics of Displacement in Gentrifying Seoul Hyun Bang Shin and Soo-Hyun Kim 12 The Fall of the Hong Kong Dream: New Paths of Urban Gentrification in Hong Kong Iam-chong Ip 13 Planning as Institutionalized Informality: State, Casino Capitalists and the Production of Space in Macau Kah-Wee Lee 14 Translating a Fast Policy: Place Marketing and the Neoliberal Turn of Critical Urban Studies in South Korea Laam Hae 15 Fashioning the City: Trans-Pacific and Inter-Asian Connections in the Global Garment Industry Christina Moon Index

While each chapter shows a distinctive urban process in the individual context of East Asian countries, this collection demonstrates the usefulness of urban developmentalism as a process that cannot be easily unpacked based on existing models of urbanization in Western countries. This book ultimately celebrates the vitality of scholarship that has called for methodological and conceptual innovation in order to understand East Asian cities as form, process, and imaginary. - Choi, Byung-Doo, University of Daegu, Co-Founder of the East Asian Regional Conference on Alternative Geography Ranging in topic from the Gangnam-ization of Korean urban space to the management of migrant populations in China, each essay in this collection is a fascinating and insightful case study in its own right. Taken as a whole, Developmentalist Cities? breaks important new ground by connecting the afterlives of Cold War developmentalism to new forms of neoliberal urbanism in East Asia. As these rich, interdisciplinary essays demonstrate, we cannot understand our urban present without understanding the histories, political economies and contested practices of developmentalist cities. This book is a timely and significant intervention into today's critical debates around urban growth and migration, gentrification and globalization, and the cities, zones and regions that mediate them. - Jini Kim Watson, New York University, author of The New Asian City: Three Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form

[...] [R]esulted from several years of interdisciplinary workshops and collaborative works, Developmental Cities? Interrogating Urban Developmentalism is a milestone for those who study East Asian cities or who are interested in the nexus between geopolitics and urban processes. After reading this book, one will acquire an in-depth understanding of the complex histories of cities in East Asia. Moreover, the volume also has the ability to expand the debate beyond East Asian cities, stimulating dialogue with cities in other regions in order to demonstrate how they are linked based on a complex of geopolitical relations. This process will help us to theorize the urban more from non-Western perspectives. Indeed, this is not a simple task and it requires continued efforts. This volume, however, is a valuable contribution toward these efforts. - Do Young Oh , London School of Economics and Political Science, in: Urban Geography, 27 May 2019 This original and provocative collection is the first critically to interrogate the nexus of urbanism and developmentalism in East Asia, mobilizing in the process the kaleidoscopic lens that is geopolitical economy. Highly recommended, the book inaugurates new ways of thinking about cities, urban theory, and (late) developmental states, both within the region and beyond. - Jamie Peck, Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy and Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia While each chapter shows a distinctive urban process in the individual context of East Asian countries, this collection demonstrates the usefulness of urban developmentalism as a process that cannot be easily unpacked based on existing models of urbanization in Western countries. This book ultimately celebrates the vitality of scholarship that has called for methodological and conceptual innovation in order to understand East Asian cities as form, process, and imaginary. - Choi, Byung-Doo, University of Daegu, Co-Founder of the East Asian Regional Conference on Alternative Geography Ranging in topic from the Gangnam-ization of Korean urban space to the management of migrant populations in China, each essay in this collection is a fascinating and insightful case study in its own right. Taken as a whole, Developmentalist Cities? breaks important new ground by connecting the afterlives of Cold War developmentalism to new forms of neoliberal urbanism in East Asia. As these rich, interdisciplinary essays demonstrate, we cannot understand our urban present without understanding the histories, political economies and contested practices of developmentalist cities. This book is a timely and significant intervention into today's critical debates around urban growth and migration, gentrification and globalization, and the cities, zones and regions that mediate them. - Jini Kim Watson, New York University, author of The New Asian City: Three Dimensional Fictions of Space and Urban Form

Author Information

Jamie Doucette is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester. His research interests concern the geographical political economy of developmentalism and democratization in Korea and East Asia. He publishes widely in geography, political economy, and Asian studies. Bae-Gyoon Park is a Professor of Geography in the College of Education at Seoul National University. His recent research focuses on border regions and (post) developmental urbanism in East Asia. He co-edited Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia (Blackwell 2012).

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