Table of Contents

1. Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia 2. Civil Society for Itself and in the Public Sphere 3. Governing Cities 4. State-Society Relations, the City and Civic Space 5. Chinese Public Space 6. Mosques as a Type of Civic Space in Turbulent Times 7. Civic Space and Integration in Chinese Peri-Urban Villages 8. The Pavement as Civic Space 9. Changing Community Relations and Emerging Civic Spaces in Shanghai 10. From Street Corners to Plaza 11. Transient Civic Spaces in Jakarta Demopolis 12. Creating New Civic Realms in a Global City-State 13. Bangkok’s Sanam Luang (The Royal Ground) 14. International Meetings and Dissent

About the Author

Mike Douglass is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and the Director of the Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawaii, USA. K.C. Ho is Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Giok Ling Ooi is Professor at the National Institute of Education at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is also Adjunct Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies.