Asian Urbanism

Abstract

Abstract This entry on Asian urbanism begins by examining how Asian urbanism can be seen as bothactually existingandimagined, taking into consideration the ways in which Asian urbanism has entailed the use of successful Asian cities as reference points for other cities in the Global South on the one hand, and how such referencing practices often entail the rendering of Asian urbanism as imagined models and ideologies that are detached from the realities of the receiving end of the model transfer on the other. The ensuing section examines how Asian urbanism can be situated in the context of state–society relations, with a particular emphasis on the role of the Asian states that exhibited developmental and/or authoritarian orientations in the late twentieth century. The penultimate section explores the sociospatiality of Asian urbanism, summarizing some salient characteristics of Asian urbanism. The entry concludes with an emphasis on the need to avoid Asian exceptionalism, and also to have a pluralistic perspective on Asian urbanism while retaining Asia as a unit of analysis.

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