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Mega-Urbanization in the Global South : Fast cities and new urban utopias of the postcolonial state
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Ayona Datta
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Abdul Shaban
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November 3 2016
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9781315797830
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November 3 2016
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10.4324/9781315797830
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Book chapters
pp. 13
Introduction: fast cities in an urban age
pp. 43
Frictionless utopias for the contemporary urban age: large-scale, master-planned redevelopment projects in urbanizing Africa
pp. 66
New African city plans: local urban form and the escalation of urban inequalities
pp. 78
Speed kills: fast urbanism and endangered sustainability in the Masdar City project
pp. 95
Envisioned by the state: entrepreneurial urbanism and the making of Songdo City, South Korea
pp. 113
From petro-urbanism to knowledge megaprojects in the Persian Gulf: Qatar Foundation’s Education City
pp. 135
“Their houses on our land”: perforations and blockades in the planning of New Town Rajarhat, Kolkata RATOOLA KUNDU
pp. 163
Mega-suburbanization in Jakarta mega-urban region
pp. 181
Mega-scale sustainability: the relational production of a new Lusaka
pp. 200
Planning new towns in the People’s Republic: the political dimensions of eco-city images in China
pp. 217
Slow: towards a decelerated urbanism
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