With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars drawing upon real world examples, this title is the first to use the lens of speed to examine the postcolonial 'urban revolution'. It explores the contradictions between intended and unintended outcomes of fast cities and points to their fault lines between
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Introduction
- Fast cities in the Urban Age
Ayona Datta
Fast cities and 'new' urban utopias
2. Frictionless Utopias for the Contemporary Urban Age: Large-scale, Master-planned Redevelopment Projects in Urbanizing Africa
Martin Murray
3. New African city plans: local urban form and the acceleration of urban inequalities.
Vanessa Watson
4. Speed kills: Fast urbanism and endangered sustainability in the Masdar City project
Federico Cugurullo
Entrepreneurial states
5. Envisioned by the State: Entrepreneurial Urbanism and the Making of Songdo City, South Korea
Hyun Shin
6. From petro-urbanism to knowledge megaprojects in the Persian Gulf: Qatar Foundation's Education City
Agatino Rizzo
7. 'Their houses on our land': Perforations and blockades in the Planning of New Town Rajarhat, India
Ratoola Kundu
Mega-urbanization and Masterplanning
8. Mega-suburbanization in Jakarta Mega-urban Region
Delik Hudalah and Tommy Firman
9. Mega- Scale Sustainability: The relational production of a new Lusaka
Mathew Lane
10. Planning new towns in the People's Republic: Political dimensions of eco-city images in China.
Braulio Morera
Slow: Towards a decelerated urbanism
Abdul Shaban and Ayona Datta
