Places of Nature in Ecologies of Urbanism

If 21st-century urbanisation is understood as a problem, its regional epicentre is the cities in Asia. Facing unprecedented diversity in scale, scope and environmental dynamics in the Asian urban experience, scholars will need an approach that can truly capture the significance of place and context. The challenge can be met by the analytic of ecologies of urbanism. Eschewing a rigid, single ecology, the contributors here identify multiple forms of nature - in biophysical, cultural and political terms - that have discernable impact on power relations and human social action.