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Cities for Profit
Cities for Profitexamines the phenomenon of urban real estate megaprojects in Asia-massive, privately built planned urban developments that have captured the imagination of politicians, policymakers, and citizens across the region. These controversial projects, embraced by elites, occasion massive displacement and have extensive social and economic impacts. Gavin Shatkin finds commonalities and similarities in dozens of such projects in Jakarta, Kolkata, and Chongqing.
Shatkin is at the vanguard of urban studies in his focus on real estate. Just as cities are increasingly defined and remapped according to the value of the land under their residents' feet, the lives of city dwellers are shaped and constrained by their ability to keep up with rising costs of urban life. Scholars and policy and planning professionals alike will benefit from Shatkin's comprehensive research.Cities for Profitcontains insights from more than 150 interviews, site visits to projects, and data from government and nongovernmental organization reports and data, urban plans, architectural renderings, annual reports and promotional materials of developers, and newspaper and other media accounts.
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The City as a Mirror: Transport, Land Use and Social Change in Jakarta
This paper examines historical patterns of transport and land use development in Jakarta with a view to understanding the larger meaning of development in this context. The paper uses archival analysis and policy interviews to trace theories and practices of national and urban development from the late colonial period to the mid 1990s. Apparent continuities in the development of major roads, goods movement corridors and spaces of flows are investigated in relation to claims of fundamental policy and social change across this period. Additionally, shifts in the provision of public transport and pedestrian facilities are investigated in terms of wider processes of social contestation and resolution. The analysis highlights the connection between transport and land use policies and wider economic, political and social imaginarles.It also suggests that, despite the appearance of fundamental ideological change and social upheaval, there are continuities in development that suggest the maintenance of social relations within Jakarta.
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Beyond the Third World City: The New Urban Geography of South-east Asia
Scholars, as area specialists, have typified south-east Asian cities as Third World cities and emphasised their uniquely south-cast Asian or even national characteristics. This paper will argue that the early decades of decolonisation which gave rise to this perspective were in fact a transitional phase. In the late colonial period south-cast Asian cities were already becoming more like Western cities. Since the 1980s, in the era of globalisation, this process of convergence has re-emerged. Clearly, there should now be a single urban discourse. This is not to deny that south-east Asian (or Third World) cities have distinctive elements. The problem is the paradigm which shuts out First World elements.
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The Spatial Pattern of Land Values in Jakarta
Rapid urban development and globalisation have brought dynamic changes to large cities in the developing countries. Yet understanding of the changes has been handicapped by the lack of data and systematic attempts. By using the latest release of land-value data in Jakarta, this paper provides insights into the spatial structure of land values in a typical Third World metropolis. Land values vary drastically from one kelurahan to another, with most of the expensive land parcels in central Jakarta. However, in central Jakarta one could also easily find cheap land parcels whose values were lower than the lowest land values of some parcels in non-central regions of the city, reflecting the mixture of slums and skyscrapers in central Jakarta. Land values were not distributed evenly in the non-central regions. Rather, they were more expensive in west and south Jakarta than in north and east Jakarta. Spatial variables, especially distance to the central business district, were important in shaping land-value patterns in Jakarta, but the explanatory power of distance declined over time. The findings of this paper will not only be useful for an understanding of spatial land-value patterns in Asian cities, but will also be beneficial for investors and policy-makers in their decision-making processes.
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