TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perera,Nihal
AU  - Tang,Wing-shing
TI  - Transforming Asian cities: intellectual impasse, Asianizing space, and emerging trans-localities 
SN  - 9780415507394 (pbk)
U1  - 307.76 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Asia
KW  - Sociology, Urban
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-284) and index
N2  - "Draws attention to how Asians produce their contemporary urban practices, identities and spaces as part of, resisting, responding to and avoiding larger global and national processes. The individual chapters illustrate that "global" spaces are more (trans)local, traditional environments are more modern, and Asian spaces are better defined than acknowledged. The aim is to develop room for understandings of Asian cities from Asian standpoints, especially acknowledging how Asians observe, interpret, understand, and create space in their cities"--
ER  -