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1. Centering Housing Questions in Asian Cities

verfasst von : Yi-Ling Chen, Hyun Bang Shin

Erschienen in: Neoliberal Urbanism, Contested Cities and Housing in Asia

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Abstract

The chapter discusses how important housing questions are for Asian cities and citizens in the contemporary era of neoliberalization. It highlights the importance of understanding the path-dependent nature of neoliberalization, especially in the context of Asia’s condensed development under the developmentalist states. It also shows how housing has been at the heart of urban contestations in Asian cities, especially given its significance for wealth generation and upward class mobility when the formation of middle classes would have been the state’s legitimacy project. The chapter concludes by providing a summary of each contributing chapter.

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UN-Habitat (2016, pp. 11–14) in their World Cities Report summarizes its key findings on housing as follows: (1) an enabling approach for some, but disabling for many, (2) the decline of housing as a political priority despite increasing demand, (3) excessive focus on homeownership speculation, (4) housing as a speculative investment, (5) neglect of rental housing, and (6) increasing reliance on the private sector.
 
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We are mindful of the difficulties in conceptualizing ‘Asia’ as a homogeneous geographic entity, and how it is imagined politically and intellectually by various critics (see, for instance, Chen 2010, 2012; Emmerson 1984; Spivak 2007). In this book, Asia largely refers to the late-industrialized East Asian economies (the so-called ‘tiger economies’) including mainland China, which have experienced a distinctive trajectory of condensed industrialization and urbanization during the post-colonial era of the late twentieth century. It also includes the Southeast Asian economies that have attempted to emulate the experience of the ‘tiger economies.’ Asia in this volume is also equated with the label global East that was mobilized by Shin et al. (2016, p. 456).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Centering Housing Questions in Asian Cities
verfasst von
Yi-Ling Chen
Hyun Bang Shin
Copyright-Jahr
2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55015-6_1

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