Asian Cities
About the Book Series
The Asian Cities Series explores urban cultures, societies and developments from the ancient to the contemporary city, from West Asia and the Near East to East Asia and the Pacific. The series focuses on three avenues of inquiry: evolving and competing ideas of the city across time and space; urban residents and their interactions in the production, shaping and contestation of the city; and urban challenges of the future as they relate to human well-being, the environment, heritage and public life.
Immigration in Singapore
1st Edition
Edited
By Vasu, Wen Ling Chan, Su Yin Yeap
December 01, 2025
This study traces the socio-political effects of immigration on Singapore and its population, a topic that has been the subject of intense debate in the nation as its population grows increasingly diverse. Beyond the logic of economic imperatives, the book aims to explore the larger consequences of...
Neighbourhoods for the City in Pacific Asia
1st Edition
By Kong Chong Ho
December 01, 2025
The largest cities in Pacific Asia are the engines of their countries' economic growth, seats of national and regional political power, and repositories of the nation's culture and heritage. The economic changes impacting large cities interact with political forces along with social cultural ...
Shanghai Literary Imaginings: A City in Transformation
1st Edition
By Lena Scheen
December 01, 2025
This book draws on a wide range of methods-including approaches from literary studies, cultural studies, and urban sociology-to analyse the transformation of Shanghai through rapid growth and widespread urban renewal. Lena Scheen explores the literary imaginings of the city, its past, present, and ...
The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore
1st Edition
Edited
By Simone Shu-Yeng Chung, Mike Douglass
December 01, 2025
With Singapore serving as the subject of exploration, The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore explores the purview of imaginative representations of the city. Alongside the physical structures and associated practices that make up our lived environment, and conceptualized space engineered into ...
Urban Development in the Margins of a World Heritage Site: In the Shadows of Angkor
1st Edition
By Adèle Esposito
December 01, 2025
This volume addresses the relationship between the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor (Cambodia), and the nearby town of Siem Reap. While previous work on heritage sites has mainly focused on protected areas, this book shifts the attention to the margins, where detrimental, tourism-driven urban ...
Urban Traditions and Historic Environments in Sindh: A Fading Legacy of Shikarpoor, Historic City
1st Edition
By Anila Naeem
December 01, 2025
Shikarpoor Historic City, in Sindh, Pakistan, has a rich historical heritage: as a central point on caravan trade routes, it served as the gateway to Afghanistan and Central Asia. In recognition of that history, in 1998 the government of Sindh named it a protected heritage site-but that status ...
Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China: Urbanized Interface
1st Edition
Edited
By Minna Valjakka, Meiqin Wang
December 01, 2025
This edited volume provides a multifaceted investigation of the dynamic interrelations between visual arts and urbanization in contemporary Mainland China with a focus on unseen representations and urban interventions brought about by the transformations of the urban space and the various problems ...
The Cityscapes of Taipei, Hong Kong, and Singapore during the Cold War
1st Edition
Edited
By Tze-ki Hon, Ying-kit Chan
April 18, 2025
This volume presents a comparative analysis of three key cities—Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taipei—during the Cold War. Strategically positioned within international trade networks, these cities also served as critical nodes for both regional conflicts and cooperation. The comparison primarily ...
Future Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self (Volume III)
1st Edition
Edited
By Gregory Bracken, Paul Rabé, Nurul Azreen Azlan
December 18, 2024
Future Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West investigates some of the greatest challenges facing society in the twenty-first century, including the struggle for rights and recognition by indigenous peoples, women, migrants, and the young, as well as the dampening effects some government ...