Bringing together inter-disciplinary research into the subject of urban developmentalism, this indispensable collection fills gaps in research on both East Asian developmentalism and urbanization.

Jamie Doucette is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester. His research interests concern the geographical political economy of developmentalism and democratization in Korea and East Asia. He publishes widely in geography, political economy, and Asian studies.

Bae-Gyoon Park is a Professor of Geography in the College of Education at Seoul National University. His recent research focuses on border regions and (post) developmental urbanism in East Asia. He co-edited Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia (Blackwell 2012).

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1 Introduction: Interrogating Urban Developmentalism in East Asia

Jamie Doucette and Bae-Gyoon Park

2 Heavy Industries and Second Tier City Growth in South Korea: A Geopolitical Economic Analysis of the "Four Core Plants Plan"

Young-Jin Choi and Jim Glassman

3 Eclipse of the Rising Sun? The Once and Future Tokyo

Heidi Gottfried

4 The Biopolitics of Urbanization in China: Managing Migration and Access to Education

Eli Friedman

5 Zoning Urbanization: The Hsinchu Technopolis as an Enclave of Modernity in Taiwan

Jinn-yuh Hsu

6 New Spaces of Exception: Special Economic Zones and Luxury Condominiums in Metro Manila

Jana M. Kleibert

7 The Gangnam-ization of Korean Urban Ideology

Bae-Gyoon Park and Jin-bum Jang

8 Volatile Territorialities: North Korea's Special Economic Zones and the Geopolitical Economy of Urban Developmentalism

Jamie Doucette and Seung-Ook Lee

9 From &'Special Zones' to Cities and City-regions in China

Carolyn Cartier

10 Waiting and Remembering: Economy of Anticipation and Materiality of Aspiration in Dandong, China

Christina Kim Chilcote

11 The Developmental State, Speculative Urbanization and the Politics of Displacement in Gentrifying Seoul

Hyun Bang Shin and Soo-Hyun Kim

12 The Fall of the Hong Kong Dream: New Paths of Urban Gentrification in Hong Kong

Iam-chong Ip

13 Planning as Institutionalized Informality: State, Casino Capitalists and the Production of Space in Macau

Kah-Wee Lee

14 Translating a Fast Policy: Place Marketing and the Neoliberal Turn of Critical Urban Studies in South Korea

Laam Hae

15 Fashioning the City: Trans-Pacific and Inter-Asian Connections in the Global Garment Industry

Christina Moon

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