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Connolly uses ongoing urban redevelopment in Penang in Malaysia to provide stimulating new perspectives on urbanisation, governance and political ecology. The book deploys the concept of landscape political ecology to show how Penang residents, activists, planners and other stakeholders mobilize new relationships with the urban environment, to contest controversial development projects and challenge hegemonic visions for the city’s future. Based on six years of local research, this book provides both a dynamic account of region’s rapid reshaping and a fresh theoretical framework in which to consider issues of sustainable development, heritage and governance in urban areas worldwide.

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1. Introduction: Governing Urban Transformations in Penang 2. Towards a Landscape Political Ecology 3. Megapolitan Explosions: Reworking Urban and Regional Metabolisms 4. Competing Visions of Landscape Transformation in a World Ing City 5. The Forests in the City: Building Participatory Approaches to Urban-Environmental Governance 6. Integrating Cultural and Natural Heritage on Penang Hill 7. Artificial Islands and the Production of New Urban Spaces 8. Conclusion: An Island on an Urbanising Frontier

Political Ecologies of Landscape: Governing Urban

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      Publisher Bristol University Press
      Published 6 May 2022
      ISBN-13 9781529214147
      978-1529214147
      ISBN-10 1529214149
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      Political geography Society and culture: general Urban communities / city life

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Connolly uses ongoing urban redevelopment in Penang in Malaysia to provide stimulating new perspectives on urbanisation, governance and political ecology. The book deploys the concept of landscape political ecology to show how Penang residents, activists, planners and other stakeholders mobilize new relationships with the urban environment, to contest controversial development projects and challenge hegemonic visions for the city’s future. Based on six years of local research, this book provides both a dynamic account of region’s rapid reshaping and a fresh theoretical framework in which to consider issues of sustainable development, heritage and governance in urban areas worldwide.

      Table of Contents
      1. Introduction: Governing Urban Transformations in Penang 2. Towards a Landscape Political Ecology 3. Megapolitan Explosions: Reworking Urban and Regional Metabolisms 4. Competing Visions of Landscape Transformation in a World Ing City 5. The Forests in the City: Building Participatory Approaches to Urban-Environmental Governance 6. Integrating Cultural and Natural Heritage on Penang Hill 7. Artificial Islands and the Production of New Urban Spaces 8. Conclusion: An Island on an Urbanising Frontier

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