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Asian Cities - Liveability Sustainability Diversity and Spaces of Encounter
This project focuses on four Asian cities that can be described as 'ordinary' (Robinson 2006) (Kunming, China; Busan, South Korea; Hyderabad, India; Singapore).
The project will examine the ways in which issues of liveability, sustainability, difference and diversity are lived with, and through, in selected neighbourhoods. The neighbourhoods will be selected on the basis of recent social, cultural, economic, technological and/or infrastructure changes. The research will examine the alignment or contradictions between people actually living the varied processes of urbanisation on the ground, and official city and institutional policies, plans, discourses and practices. In this way the tensions and collaborations between actors involved in urban processes can be examined. Worst and best practices will be identified, analysed and recorded.
We will use a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods in situ in each city – these include surveys, interviews, focus groups and discourse analysis. Our intellectual approach and research methods will provide holistic understandings of the key workings of urban social, cultural, environmental and technological inter-relationships, processes and transformations.
We aim to contribute to aspects of debate about urban policy and planning as well as critique and expand contemporary urban theory, which is generally very Western centric. |
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Assoc Prof Tracey Skelton
Department of Geography,
National University of
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 geost@nus.edu.sg
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Asst Prof Chang Jiat Hwee
Department of Architecture,
National University of Singapore
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Assoc Prof Ho Kong Chong
Department of Sociology,
National University of Singapore
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Asst Prof Francis Leo Collins
Department of Geography,
National University of Singapore
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Asst Prof Harvey Neo
Department of Geography,
National University of Singapore
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Asst Prof Pow Choon-Piew
Department of Geography,
National University of Singapore
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Prof Brenda Yeoh
Provost’s Chair, Department of Geography,
Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,
National University of Singapore
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