4 Competing Visions of Landscape Transformation in a Worlding City
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Creighton Connolly
Abstract
This chapter examines controversies over the extensive urban redevelopment projects that have emerged since 2012, with a specific focus on the PTMP. Through examining this case, the chapter highlights key technologies of governance that are being used to counter neoliberal ‘global-city’ making strategies put forth by city managers which can have disastrous socio-ecological consequences for cities and their inhabitants. As I will show, the competing visions for Penang’s future rely on competing understandings and imaginaries of the landscape and reflect the ways in which citizens of the global south are resisting the aspirational and hegemonic visions of their future imposed by city leaders. The chapter thereby highlights key technologies of governance that are being used to counter neoliberal ‘global-city’ making strategies put forth by city managers which can have disastrous socio-ecological consequences for cities and their inhabitants.
Abstract
This chapter examines controversies over the extensive urban redevelopment projects that have emerged since 2012, with a specific focus on the PTMP. Through examining this case, the chapter highlights key technologies of governance that are being used to counter neoliberal ‘global-city’ making strategies put forth by city managers which can have disastrous socio-ecological consequences for cities and their inhabitants. As I will show, the competing visions for Penang’s future rely on competing understandings and imaginaries of the landscape and reflect the ways in which citizens of the global south are resisting the aspirational and hegemonic visions of their future imposed by city leaders. The chapter thereby highlights key technologies of governance that are being used to counter neoliberal ‘global-city’ making strategies put forth by city managers which can have disastrous socio-ecological consequences for cities and their inhabitants.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of Figures vi
- List of Abbreviations vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Preface xi
- Introduction: Governing Urban Transformations in Penang 1
- Towards a Landscape Political Ecology 20
- Megapolitan Explosions: Reworking Urban and Regional Metabolisms 38
- Competing Visions of Landscape Transformation in a Worlding City 57
- The Forests in the City: Building Participatory Approaches to Urban-Environmental Governance 77
- Integrating Cultural and Natural Heritage on Penang Hill 96
- Artificial Islands and the Production of New Urban Spaces 114
- Conclusion: An Island on an Urbanizing Frontier 135
- Notes 145
- References 148
- Index 185
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of Figures vi
- List of Abbreviations vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Preface xi
- Introduction: Governing Urban Transformations in Penang 1
- Towards a Landscape Political Ecology 20
- Megapolitan Explosions: Reworking Urban and Regional Metabolisms 38
- Competing Visions of Landscape Transformation in a Worlding City 57
- The Forests in the City: Building Participatory Approaches to Urban-Environmental Governance 77
- Integrating Cultural and Natural Heritage on Penang Hill 96
- Artificial Islands and the Production of New Urban Spaces 114
- Conclusion: An Island on an Urbanizing Frontier 135
- Notes 145
- References 148
- Index 185
