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urbanization and nation-building

H-ASIA
Mar 29 2011

Member publication: Asian cities: globalization, urbanization and
nation-building
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From: malcolm mckinnon <mckinnonmalcolm@gmail.com>

I wish to record the recent publication of:

Asian cities: globalization, urbanization and nation-building

Copenhagen, NIAS Press, 2011, www.niaspress.dk

ISBN: 978-87-7694-078-2 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-87-7694-079-9 (pbk)

234 pp plus index and bibliography

*Asian Cities *challenges Western paradigms of urban growth with a fresh
look at cities in developing Asia. It questions the status accorded
globalization in explaining contemporary Asian cities, arguing instead
that
they are being transformed by at least three autonomous, albeit linked,
forces – urbanization and nation-building as well as globalization.
The book
reaches beyond the usual focus on metropolitan centers to examine
urban life
in selected middle-sized cities in China, India and Indonesia,
representative of hundreds of such centers throughout Asia.

The work of a single author, *Asian cities* provides both a readable
introduction to Asian urbanism for students in the humanities and social
sciences, and an interpretation that will interest scholars in those
same
fields. The hardback edition is now available in Europe, North America,
Australia and New Zealand, to be followed shortly by the paperback,
worldwide. An advance copy can be seen at the AAS conference in
Honolulu.

This is also an opportunity for the author to thank H-Asia, and
particularly
its editors, for sustaining over so many years a forum which has greatly
facilitated the task of researching and writing a book like this.

Malcolm McKinnon
Wellington, New Zealand

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