Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. Illustrations x
5. Introduction: Places of Nature in Asian Cities and Towns 1
6. 1. Inquisitive Legacies: Ecologies of Power and Goan Modernity 27
7. 2. Eco-Socialism and Green City Making in Postwar Vietnam 45
8. 3. Urban Leopards Are Good Cartographers: Human-Nonhuman and Spatial Conflicts at Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai 67
9. 4. Hong Kong’s Artificial Anti-Archipelago and the Unnaturing of the Natural 87
10. 5. Tales from the Concrete Cave: Delhi’s Birla Temple and the Genealogies of Urban Nature in India 108
11. 6. Courts, Public Cultures of Legality, and Urban Ecological Imagination in Delhi 137
12. 7. Ecologies of Possibility: Dwelling, Politics, and Government along Khon Kaen’s Railway Tracks 162
13. 8. Discrepant Ecologies in a North Indian Qasba: Protected Trees, Degraded River 185
14. 9. Re-imagining the Indian Underground: A Biography of the Tubewell 206
15. Contributors 239
16. Index 240