Globalization and new intra-urban dynamics in Asian cities
Globalisation et nouvelles dynamiques intra-urbaines dans les villes d'Asie
Résumé
This book is the fruit of a Franco-Taiwanese collaboration funded
by Academia Sinica, le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(CNRS)1, the National Science Council (NSC, or Ministry of Science
and Technology), and National Taiwan University (NTU). It came
about on the initiative of a team of geographers, sociologists, urban
planners, anthropologists, and economists from Academia Sinica,
National Chengchi University, and National Taiwan University, together
with members of laboratories jointly run by universities and two big
French research centers, CNRS and l’Institut de Recherche pour le
Développement (IRD)2.
The aim of the collaboration was to cross-reference Taiwanese and
French ideas on the intra-urban dynamics that have been set in motion
by globalization in Asian cities. It involved comparing research subject priorities in this field as well as the approaches chosen to deal with them within a geographical zone expanding from Northeast to Southern
Asia. Four main themes form the four sections
of this book:
1. culture-led regeneration projects,
2. dynamics of second-tier cities,
3. urban redevelopment and land issues, and
4. new urban spaces of regulation, associational life, and civic
action.