Asian GeographerPub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2022.2052734
Yong Zhou, Fan Xiao, Weipeng Deng
{"title":"Is smart city a slogan? Evidence from China","authors":"Yong Zhou, Fan Xiao, Weipeng Deng","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2022.2052734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2022.2052734","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Many ideas of urban experiments have been used in sloganeering to stimulate short-term economic growth in China. A question arises: Is the smart city a slogan? This study estimated the relationship between smart city pilot projects and regional economic growth by using the difference-in-differences (DID) model and explored smart cities’ myths through 19 unstructured interviews. The following conclusions were drawn. First, smart city pilot projects positively affected regional economic growth, but with time-lag effects. Second, market and infrastructure effects co-shaped regional economic growth. Third, benefiting from a newly created market, a few cities with foundations for smart industries have developed rapidly. Over time, an increasing number of smart cities would benefit from the projects by the constructed smart infrastructure. Although scholars have long criticized previous urban experiments in China as a slogan only for land revenue generation, this study suggests that smart cities could be a new model for regional economic development through market and infrastructure effects.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48882184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian GeographerPub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2023.2227618
C. Flint, Hassan Noorali
{"title":"The relationality of geopolitical codes: the example of the Belt and Road Initiative","authors":"C. Flint, Hassan Noorali","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2023.2227618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2023.2227618","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43465935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian GeographerPub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2023.2227619
C. Uçar
{"title":"City of shadows: slums and informal work in Bangalore","authors":"C. Uçar","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2023.2227619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2023.2227619","url":null,"abstract":"Alongside debates over rising inequalities, the stubborn persistence of urban poverty, globally, has emerged as a major academic and policy concern, typically framed by the paradigms of basic services and welfare. In the backdrop of Bangalore’s evolution into India’s Silicon Valley, City of Shadows presents research spanning old, inner-city slums, new migrant settlements in urban peripheries, slum development projects, and garment export and construction workers. This research highlights that, inter-generationally, the urban poor remain tied to traditional, low-income occupations, or get incorporated into new urban growth channels, such as export industries and low-end services, under highly unfavourable terms and conditions. Debates on the developmental state, democracy and the urban poor’s political agency are used to problematise the complex relationship of informal work to contemporary theories of class. Using the concepts of the old poor and the new poor to explore channels of urban inclusion and exclusion, City of Shadows demonstrates that the poor’s vulnerabilities vary profoundly under different regimes of informal economies actively constructed by both the state and the market.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43742140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian GeographerPub Date : 2023-06-03DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2023.2217805
Nahrin Jannat Hossain, Nethea Islam Nitu, Md. Abdul Malak, M. Quader, M. Haque, K. Akand
{"title":"Livelihoods under pressure: insights from riverine community in Bangladesh","authors":"Nahrin Jannat Hossain, Nethea Islam Nitu, Md. Abdul Malak, M. Quader, M. Haque, K. Akand","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2023.2217805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2023.2217805","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42366903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian GeographerPub Date : 2022-09-12DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2022.2038221_1
bayan atiyyat
{"title":"Inner-group and inter-group relations in Seoul participatory planning: revisiting the concept of social capital","authors":"bayan atiyyat","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2022.2038221_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2022.2038221_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46048390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian GeographerPub Date : 2022-07-20DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2022.2102512
F. Bian, A. Yeh, Jingru Zhang
{"title":"Scalar tensions and the missing link crisis in China’s National Trunk Highway System","authors":"F. Bian, A. Yeh, Jingru Zhang","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2022.2102512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2022.2102512","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48512160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian GeographerPub Date : 2022-07-11DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2022.2098506
Tanmoy Biswas, A. Rai
{"title":"Medical travel from north – east India: an assessment of domestic medical tourists’ travel profile and experience","authors":"Tanmoy Biswas, A. Rai","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2022.2098506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2022.2098506","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48655770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian GeographerPub Date : 2022-07-08DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2022.2098507
Gz. MeeNilankco Theiventhran
{"title":"Energy as a geopolitical battleground in Sri Lanka","authors":"Gz. MeeNilankco Theiventhran","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2022.2098507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2022.2098507","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46585798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian GeographerPub Date : 2022-02-24DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2022.2029506
W. Holden
{"title":"Climate change, neoauthoritarianism, necropolitics, and state failure: the Duterte regime in the Philippines","authors":"W. Holden","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2022.2029506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2022.2029506","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Philippines is vulnerable to climate change and the natural hazards it has enhanced. The Philippines lacks peace, suffers from weak state institutions, and is a fragile state. Since 2016 President Rodrigo Duterte has embarked upon a war on drugs, claiming thousands of lives. This war on drugs is perceived to be a pretext for the establishment of an authoritarian government. The confluence of weak state institutions, a disregard for human rights, and weak public participation in environmental governance generates difficulty for coping with climate change in the Philippines. The intersection of climate change and state weakness is found in the violation of the human rights of environmentalists and the Philippines is among the leading countries in the world in terms of the number of environmentalists killed.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48213927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asian GeographerPub Date : 2022-02-24DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2022.2038221
Hyunjin Cho
{"title":"Inner-group and inter-group relations in Seoul participatory planning: revisiting the concept of social capital","authors":"Hyunjin Cho","doi":"10.1080/10225706.2022.2038221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10225706.2022.2038221","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores the composition of social relations in Korean community-led regeneration planning. Power dynamics among participants are understood as an important factor in shaping decision-making planning processes. While the concept of social capital and the social network theory have received great attention, particularly in recent Asian planning cases, as tools to understand participatory processes, empirical studies on processes of building social capital among different social groups in participatory planning are still limited. This study examines the uneven formation of social capital and its operation to unpack participatory planning mechanisms that may unintentionally reproduce the relationships of domination/marginalisation in the decision-making consultation processes. The study focuses on a recently designated community-led regeneration project, the Garibong-dong urban regeneration project in Seoul, a neighborhood where a considerable number of Korean Chinese communities live.","PeriodicalId":44260,"journal":{"name":"Asian Geographer","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47031058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}