Books in the Asian Cities series

This book aims to explore the larger consequences of taking in large number of immigrants.

The ten essays in this book engage with some of the most critical urban questions of the near future across Asia.

This book looks at local collective action and city government responses and its impact on the neighbourhood and the city in Pacific Asia.

Explores the literary imaginings of Shanghai, its past, present, and future, in order to understand the effects of that urban transformation on both the psychological state of Shanghai's citizens and their perception of the spaces they inhabit.

Explores the rise of Asian cities, dealing with history, geography, culture, architecture, urbanism, and other topics, and attempts to formulate a new understanding of what makes Asian cities such global leaders.

This book tells the story of Shikarpoor and presents as complete a picture of its threatened historical fabric as possible, through copious maps and images past and present.

The richly illustrated bookk carefully situates architecture, design, and urban planning within Kolkata's political economy and social milieu.

This volume addresses the relationship between the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor (Cambodia), and the nearby town of Siem Reap, assessing the margins of heritage sites where detrimental, tourism-driven urban development may take place.

The book explores the multiple and changing ideas, concepts, and representations that shape contemporary cities in Asia in a historical perspective.

This book offers a multifaceted investigation of the dynamic interrelations between visual arts and representation interdependent to urban spaces in China.

This book examines the active role of citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production of space that continues to encroach various neighborhoods.

This book is a collection of papers originally presented at a conference of the same name in the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden in 2016.