Full Description
This book examines the active role of urban citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production of urban spaces that continue to encroach various neighborhoods, lanes, commons, public land and other spaces of community life and livelihoods. The collection of narratives presented here brings together research from ten different Asian cities and re-theorises the city from the perspective of ordinary people facing moments of crisis, contestations, and cooperative quests to create alternative spaces to those being produced under prevailing urban processes. The chapters accent the exercise of human agency through daily practices in the production of urban space and the intention is not one of creating a romantic or utopian vision of what a city "by and for the people" ought to be. Rather, it is to place people in the centre as mediators of city-making with discontents about current conditions and desires for a better life.
Contents
Cities by and for the People Table of Contents Chapter 1 Cities by and for the People Yves Cabannes, Mike Douglass, Rita Padawangi Chapter 2 How to Prove You are Not a Squatter: Appropriating Space and Marking Presence in Jakarta Jörgen Hellman Chapter 3 Inhabitants of Spontaneous Settlements in Bangkok: Networks and Actions Changing the Contemporary Metropolis Fanny Gerbeaud Chapter 4 Collaborating Urban Farming Networks in Bangkok: To Promote Collective Gardens and Alternative Markets as Theatres of Social Action Piyapong Boossabong Chapter 5 The Struggle to Create Alternative Urban Spaces: An Attempt by a Theatre Group in Hong Kong Ngai Ming Yip Chapter 6 Making the Music Scene in the Making of Singapore: Jumping Spatio-Sonic Scales in a Southeast Asian City-State Steve Ferzacca Chapter 7 Connect with Society and People through "Art Projects" in an Era of Personalization Motohiro Koizumi Chapter 8 Challenging Form Follows Capital: The Resilience of Urban Fresh Food Provisioning in Baguio City, Philippines B. Lynne Milgram Chapter 9 From Street Hawkers to Public Markets: Modernity and Sanitization Made in Hong Kong Maurizio Marinelli Chapter 10 Street Vending from the Right to the City Approach: The Appropriation of the Bhadra Plaza Lila Oriard Colin Chapter 11 Surviving Existence through a Built Form: The Advent of the Daseng Sario Cynthia R. Susilo and Bruno De Meulder Chapter 12 Ethnic Place-Making in Cosmopolis: The Case of Yeonbeon Village in Seoul Myung-Rae Cho
