7 Artificial Islands and the Production of New Urban Spaces
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Creighton Connolly
Abstract
Chapter 7 considers the spate of large-scale land reclamation projects that are are now proliferating along Penang’s coastlines as a means of financing infrastructure projects for the state. The chapter relates these projects to wider reclamation that has been taking place across much of peninsular Malaysia in recent decades at increasingly greater scales, and questioning the socio-environmental costs of such development. In contextualizing these transformations and their proliferating scale of development, the chapter will also make reference to large-scale Chinese-funded land reclamation schemes taking place in other parts of Malaysia and East Asia more broadly, while questioning the sustainability and feasibility of these projects. As such, though the chapter is focused on Penang, the analysis will have relevance for other rapidly urbanizing and developing cities in the Asian region and beyond.
Abstract
Chapter 7 considers the spate of large-scale land reclamation projects that are are now proliferating along Penang’s coastlines as a means of financing infrastructure projects for the state. The chapter relates these projects to wider reclamation that has been taking place across much of peninsular Malaysia in recent decades at increasingly greater scales, and questioning the socio-environmental costs of such development. In contextualizing these transformations and their proliferating scale of development, the chapter will also make reference to large-scale Chinese-funded land reclamation schemes taking place in other parts of Malaysia and East Asia more broadly, while questioning the sustainability and feasibility of these projects. As such, though the chapter is focused on Penang, the analysis will have relevance for other rapidly urbanizing and developing cities in the Asian region and beyond.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- 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
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- 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
