Asian Cities
Globalization, Urbanization and Nation-building

Challenges Western paradigms of urban growth with a fresh look at cities in developing Asia. This book questions the status accorded to globalization in explaining contemporary Asian cities, arguing instead that they are being transformed by three major forces - urbanization and nation-building as well as globalization.

Chapters two and three explore two principal facets of urbanization: the material transformation that comes in its train and the impact that it has on the lives of the newly-urbanized. Chapters four to seven explore the way that the national framework shapes cities - including business enterprises, migration, travel and commercial popular culture. In a final chapter the book surveys likely trends in Asian cities over the next quarter century and considers the implications of the study for our understanding of globalization generally. This is a nuanced study grounded in quantitatively-based findings but enriched by qualitative research that both provides additional evidence and brings the findings alive.

Preface and acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Urbanization and the Asian city
3. Urbanism and the Asian city
4. Businesses and cities
5. Migrants and cities
6. Travellers and cities
7. Commercial popular culture and cities
8. Asian cities and twenty-first century globalization
Bibliography
Index.