TY - BOOK ID - 33213558 TI - Cities in Asia by and for the People AU - Cabannes, Yves AU - Padawangi, Rita AU - Douglass, Mike PY - 2018 SN - 9048536251 9462985227 PB - Amsterdam University Press DB - UniCat KW - Cities and towns KW - Global cities KW - Municipalities KW - Towns KW - Urban areas KW - Urban systems KW - Human settlements KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Social aspects KW - Public spaces KW - City planning KW - Public places KW - Social areas KW - Urban public spaces KW - Urban spaces KW - Urban planning KW - human flourishing KW - alternative space KW - commons UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33213558 AB - This book examines the active role of urban citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production of urban spaces that continue to encroach various neighborhoods. The collection of narratives presented here brings together research from ten different Asian cities and re-theorises the city from the perspective of ordinary people facing moments of crisis, contestations, and cooperative quests to create alternative spaces to those being produced under prevailing urban processes. The chapters accent the exercise of human agency through daily practices in the production of urban space and the intention is not one of creating a romantic or utopian vision of what a city "by and for the people" ought to be. Rather, it is to place people in the centre as mediators of city-making with discontents about current conditions and desires for a better life. ER -