Neoliberal Urbanism, Contested Cities and Housing in Asia

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Chen, Yi-Ling (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Shin, Hyun Bang (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: The Contemporary City
• Subjects: Globalization.; Sociology, Urban.; Ethnology-Asia.; Political sociology.; Development economics.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Asian Culture.; Political Sociology.; Development Economics.

Considering Asian cities ranging from Taipei, Hong Kong and Bangkok to Hanoi, Nanjing and Seoul, this collection discusses the socio-political processes of how neoliberalization entwines with local political economies and legacies of 'developmental' or 'socialist' statism to prod...

Table of Contents:

• Centering Housing Questions in Asian Cities
• 'Re-occupying the State': Social Housing Movement and the Transformation of Housing Policies in Taiwan
• Displacement by Neoliberalism: Addressing the Housing Crisis of Hong Kong in the Restructuring Pearl River Delta Region
• When Neoliberalization meets Clientelism: Housing Policies for Low- and Middle-Income Housing in Bangkok
• Neoliberal Urbanism Meets Socialist Modernism: Vietnam's Post Reform Housing Policies and the New Urban Zones of Hanoi
• Beyond Property Rights and Displacement: China's Neoliberal Transformation and Housing Inequalities
• Development and Inequality in Urban China: The Privatization of Homeownership and the Transformation of Everyday Practice
• Weaving the Common in the Financialized City: A Case of Urban Cohousing Experience in South Korea
• Contesting Property Hegemony in Asian Cities.