Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia: An Introduction
- 2 Walking Tours and Community Heritage in Singapore: Civic Activism in the Making in Queenstown and Geylang
- 3 Resistance and Resilience: A Case Study of Rebuilding the Choi Yuen Village in Hong Kong
- 4 Urban Planning, Public Interest, and Spatial Justice: A Case Study of the Lo-Sheng Sanatorium Preservation Movement in Taipei
- 5 Placemaking as Social Learning: Taipei’s Open Green Programme as Pedagogical Civic Urbanism
- 6 Hong Kong’s Urban Renewal Fund: A Step towards Citizen-driven Placemaking?
- 7 Re-emerging Civic Urbanism: The Evolving State–Civil Society Relations in Community Building in Seoul
- 8 A Shifting Paradigm of Urban Regeneration in Seoul?: A Case Study of Citizen Participation in Haebangchon Urban Regeneration Project
- 9 Building Communities through Neighbourhood-based: Participatory Planning in Singapore
- 10 Beyond the Sunday Spectacle: Foreign Domestic Workers and Emergent Civic Urbanisms in Hong Kong
- 11 Holding Space, Making Place: Nurturing Emergent Solidarities within New Food Systems in Singapore
- 12 Conclusion: Civic Urbanisms and Urban Governance in Asia and Beyond
- Index
- Publications/Global Asia
1 - Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia: AnIntroduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 November 2022
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia: An Introduction
- 2 Walking Tours and Community Heritage in Singapore: Civic Activism in the Making in Queenstown and Geylang
- 3 Resistance and Resilience: A Case Study of Rebuilding the Choi Yuen Village in Hong Kong
- 4 Urban Planning, Public Interest, and Spatial Justice: A Case Study of the Lo-Sheng Sanatorium Preservation Movement in Taipei
- 5 Placemaking as Social Learning: Taipei’s Open Green Programme as Pedagogical Civic Urbanism
- 6 Hong Kong’s Urban Renewal Fund: A Step towards Citizen-driven Placemaking?
- 7 Re-emerging Civic Urbanism: The Evolving State–Civil Society Relations in Community Building in Seoul
- 8 A Shifting Paradigm of Urban Regeneration in Seoul?: A Case Study of Citizen Participation in Haebangchon Urban Regeneration Project
- 9 Building Communities through Neighbourhood-based: Participatory Planning in Singapore
- 10 Beyond the Sunday Spectacle: Foreign Domestic Workers and Emergent Civic Urbanisms in Hong Kong
- 11 Holding Space, Making Place: Nurturing Emergent Solidarities within New Food Systems in Singapore
- 12 Conclusion: Civic Urbanisms and Urban Governance in Asia and Beyond
- Index
- Publications/Global Asia
Summary
Abstract
Citizens and communities are becomingincreasingly involved in shaping neighbourhoodsand cities in Asia. These emerging civic urbanismsare a result of an evolving relationship betweenthe state and civil society. The chapterintroduces Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipeias cases to explore how the changing state–civilsociety relation affects citizen participation inshaping the living environment and gives rise tothe recent surge of civic urbanisms. It providesan overview of historical state–civil societyrelations and their impact on developmentalurbanization across the region. Civic urbanism asan explanatory framework is introduced andcontextualized here with a brief overview of eachcity. Finally, the chapter identifies the majorthemes of civic urbanism and introduces casestudies discussed in this volume.
Keywords: Citizen participation,civic urbanisms, civil society, developmentalurbanization, urban governance
Introduction
A different urban paradigm is emerging in Asia.Citizens and communities are becoming increasinglyinvolved in shaping neighbourhoods and cities, whichseems to represent a significant departure fromearlier state-led or market-driven urbandevelopment. These emergingcivic urbanisms are largely a result ofan evolving relationship between the state and civilsociety. In this volume, we take Hong Kong, Seoul inSouth Korea (hereafter Korea), Singapore, and Taipeiin Taiwan as cases to explore the recent surge ofcivic urbanisms in the region (Figure 1.1). Thesefour countries became known as the ‘Four AsianTigers’ for their successful economic development inthe past (Castells, 1992: 34). Their success hasresulted from rapid export-orientedindustrialization during the 1960s and 1970s, whichwas steered by strong interventionist andauthoritarian regimes. These regimesinstrumentalized economic growth and rapidurbanization to break up (post-)colonialdependencies of once impoverished countries, improvenational security, and strengthen their politicallegitimacy (Woo-Cumings, 1999; Beeson, 2004).
Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei share a historyof urbanization, which goes back to colonial times(Watson, 2011; Cho and Križnik, 2017). While decadesof seemingly endless urban growth improved thequality of Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipeishare a history of urbanization, which goes back tocolonial times (Watson, 2011; Cho and Križnik,2017).
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- Emerging Civic Urbanisms in AsiaHong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei beyondDevelopmental Urbanization, pp. 15 - 40Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2022