CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABOUT ASIAN URBAN LAB/ AUTHOR/ DESIGNER/ PUBLISHER -- FOREWORD -- NOTES -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I IMPACT OF NEW WORLD ORDER -- 1. GLOBAL FINANCIAL TURMOIL AND CAPITAL SURPLUS -- 2. NEW POWER BALANCE -- 3. CLIMATIC CRISIS AND SUSTAINABILITY -- POPULATION GROWTH, POVERTY AND SUSTAINABILITY -- CHALLENGES TO RICH COUNTRIES -- OUT OF THE POVERTY TRAP -- 4. NEW KNOWLEDGE AND VALUE CHANGE -- PART II INCOMPLETE URBANISM -- 1. PRESENT URBAN THEORIES -- MODERN MOVEMENT -- INTERNATIONAL STYLE -- CONTESTATION -- ICONICITY -- ICON MYTH -- CULTURE OF GREED -- ARCHITECTURE WITH NATIONAL CHARACTERISTIC -- 2. CURRENT URBAN CHALLENGES -- POST-PLANNING -- ECO-CITY SYNDROME -- OPEN CITY AND CONTEMPORARINESS -- 3. RESETTING THE MODERNIST PAST -- RESETTING HISTORIOGRAPHY -- BEYOND RESETTING THE MODERNIST PAST -- DEMOCRACY -- HUMAN RIGHTS -- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MODEL -- 4. SUSTAINABLE CITIES -- INCREMENTAL ACTIONS NOT ENOUGH -- WATER SUPPLY -- AIR POLLUTION -- RECYCLING -- URBAN AGRICULTURE -- NEW BUILDINGS AND RETROFITTING -- GLOCAL SUSTAINABILITY -- CREATIVE, CRITICAL AND VIBRANT -- CREATIVE -- CRITICAL -- VIBRANT -- 5. A CRITICAL URBAN STRATEGY -- DEFINING INCOMPLETE URBANISM -- REGULATING PLOT RATIO WITH SIZEABLE ZONES -- INTENSIFYING EXISTING CITIES -- APPLYING INCREMENTAL INSTRUMENTS -- IMPLEMENTING INCOMPLETE URBANISM -- TALL BUILDINGS -- URBAN FORMS -- TRANSPORT -- CHAOS AND VIBRANCY -- ETHICS AND SPATIAL JUSTICE -- PART III CHALLENGES OF EMERGING ECONOMIES -- 1. MULTIPLE MODERNITIES AND LOCALISM -- NATION-STATE -- RELATIVE TRUTH -- 2. SPATIAL JUSTICE AND THE CITY -- TENANCY RIGHT -- HOUSING FOR LOW-INCOME -- SAFEGUARDING THE COMMONS -- 3. STATE CAPITALISM AND SOCIAL JUSTICE -- 4. UNFOLDING MULTI-ARCHITECTURAL IDENTITIES -- CENTRE IS A VOID -- HIGH DENSITY CITYSCAPE -- SIMULTANEOUS MODERNITIES -- BROKEN MODERNISM -- EPILOGUE.

CONCEPTUAL DIVERGENCE OF CULTURAL VALUES AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- DEMAND FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE BEYOND POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES -- URBAN PUBLIC HOUSING IN EMERGING ECONOMIES -- SHARON SIDDIQUE -- TALL BUILDINGS -- URBAN FORMS -- TRANSPORT -- CHAOS AND VIBRANCY -- ETHICS AND SPATIAL JUSTICE -- RANDOLF S. DAVID -- ENDNOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX.