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5. Valliant, op. cit., 127, 138.
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27. Abu-Lughod, “Urbanization in the Arab World,” 190.
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d Third World Development,” in Cities and Development in the Third World, ed. Robert B. Potter and Ademola T. Salau (London: Mansell, 1990), 1–2.
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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: “QUEENS OF THE FURTHER EAST”
1. “State of the World’s Population, 2001.”
2. C. M. Turnbull, A History of Singapore: 1819–1875 (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1977), 1–45.
3. Sharma, “Governing Our Cities”; Donald N. Wilber, Pakistan: Its People, Its Society and Its Culture (New Haven: HRAF Press, 1980), 373; Anthony King, Colonial Urban Development: Culture, Social Power and Environment (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1976), 273; Kumar, op. cit., 520.
4. Nigel Harris, City, Class, and Trade: Social and Economic Change in the Third World (London: I. B. Tauris & Co., 1991), 30; Barnett E. Rubin, “Journey to the East: Industrialization in India and the Chinese Experience,” in Social and Economic Development in India: A Reassessment, ed. Dilip K. Basu and Richard Sisson (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1986), 69.
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6. Sharma, “Governing Our Cities”; “Orillion India Thriving in Hyderabad,” Orillion Source, August 2000; Isher Judge Ahluwalia, Industrial Growth in India: Stagnation Since the Mid-Sixties (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1985), 161–87.
7. Ali Sharaf and Leslie Green, “Calcutta,” in Great Cities of the World: Their Government,Politics, and Planning, ed. William A. Robson and D. E. Regan (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1972), 299; Tim McDonald, “U.S. Tech Bust a Boon for Asia,” NewsFactor Network, June 7, 2001; Arvind Singhal and Everett M. Rogers, India’s Information Revolution (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1989), 163–65.
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9. Castells, op. cit., 151–55; Amy Waldman, “Low-Tech or High, Jobs Are Scarce in India’s Boom,” The New York Times, May 6, 2004.
10. Peter John Marcotullio, “Globalisation, Urban Form and Environmental Conditions in Asia-Pacific Cities,” Urban Studies 40, no. 2 (2003).
11. Joochul Kim and Sang-Chuel Choe, Seoul: The Making of a Metropolis (West Sussex, Eng.: John Wiley, 1997), 3, 8–11.
12. Jacquemin, op. cit., 35; A.S. Oberoi, Population Growth, Employment and Poverty in Third-World Mega-Cities: Analytical and Policy Issues (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 11; Kim and Choe, op. cit., 11–12, 26–29, 191–92.
13. Hardoy, “Building and Managing Cities in a State of Permanent Crisis,” 21.
14. El-Shakhs and Amirahmadi, op. cit., 240; Jacquemin, op. cit., 35.
15. Richard Child Hill and June Woo Kim, “Global Cities and Development States: New York, Tokyo and Seoul,” Urban Studies 37, no. 12 (2000).
16. John Rennie Short and Yeong-Hyun Kim, Globalization and the City (London: Longman, 1999), 26, 57.
17. Barbara Demick, “South Korea Proposes a Capital Change,” Los Angeles Times, July 9, 2004.
18. Gerald Segal, The Fate of Hong Kong (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 1–27; Roy Hofheinz, Jr. and Kent E. Calder, The EastAsia Edge (New York: Basic Books, 1982), 103.
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20. Janet W. Salaff, State and Family in Singapore: Restructuring a Developing Society (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1988), 3, 226–27; Lim Chong-Yah, “The Transformation of Singapore in Twenty-five Years: A Glimpse,” in Singapore:Twenty-five Years of Development, ed. You Poh Seng and Lim Chong Yah (Singapore: Nan Yang Xing Zhou Lianhe Zaobao, 1984), 6–7; Giok-Ling Ooi, “The Role of the State in Nature Conservation in Singapore,” Society and NaturalResources 15 (2002): 445–60.
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22. Pan, op. cit., 264–65; George, op. cit., 16.
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24. Ibid., 28; David S. G. Goodman, Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Revolution: A Political Biography (London: Routledge, 1994), 120; Hoiman Chan and Rance P. L. Lee, “Hong Kong Families: At the Crossroads of Modernism and Traditionalism,” Journal of Comparative Family Studies (Spring 1995); Marcotullio, “Globalisation”; Castells, op. cit., 292; Weiming Tu, “Beyond Enlightenment Mentality: A Confucian Perspective on Ethics, Migration and Global Stewardship,” International Migration Review (Spring 1996).
25. Rhoads Murphey, “The City as a Centre of Change: Western Europe and China,” in D. J. Dwyer, ed., The City in the Third World (New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1974), 62–63.
26. Gilbert and Gugler, op cit., 187; Weiming Tu, “Beyond Enlightenment Mentality”; Yue-Man Yeung, “Great Cities of Eastern Asia,” in The Metropolis Era, vol. 1, A World of Giant Cities, 158; Martin King Whyte, “Social Control and Rehabilitation in Urban China,” Third World Urbanization, 264–70; Sidney Goldstein, “Levels of Urbanization in China,” in The Metropolis Era: vol. 1, A World of Giant Cities, 200–221; Chen, op. cit., 230–32; Deborah Davis, “Social Transformation of Metropolitan China Since 1949,” in Cities in the Developing World, 247–52.
27. James Kynge, “An Industrial Powerhouse Emerges by the Waterfront,” FinancialTimes, January 23, 2003.