Asian Urbanisms

The Asian Urbanisms cluster explores Asia’s diverse urban experiences historically, contemporaneously, and toward the future. It seeks to contribute to research on city life and wider urban processes from local to global scales, in diverse contexts in Asia, and through comparative studies with other world regions. The orientation of the cluster is towards research that speaks in transformative ways to both urban theory and applied public policy issues in and beyond Asia.

The cluster’s three main strands of research are:

1. Urban heritage and the vernacular city: built environment; intangible heritage; urban culture and ways of life
2. Futures: city plans, models, and “solutions”; SDGs and the city; (post)pandemic urbanisms
3. Global urban frontiers: extended/planetary urbanization (oceanic as well as territorial); infrastructures of connectivity; new geographies of urban theory