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AbstractAnne Haila is credited as one of the pioneers in developing a new theory of urban rent, distinct from neo‐Marxist treatments of rent in the 1970s. In this reformulation, she looks into the agents and institutions of land, with land as a financial asset, where its management and use become pivotal to our understanding of the contemporary city. One of the central elements in this reformulation is the attention paid to the state and its management of land. The three conversations developed in this essay elaborate on Haila's focus on the state and its land policies. By focusing on the events that propel the state to act in housing provision, to intensify its management of land for housing and economic development, and to evade the provision of housing for some groups in society, I show how state interests with regard to land and housing are conditioned and evolve over time.

This paper represents an attempt to show how globalization is interacting with local political & social forces in the shaping of Southeast Asian capital cities. Southeast Asia is known for the political & economic dominance of its capital regions. In the recent two decades, the concentration of government, expenditures, services & amenities in the capital city has been reinforced by new foreign investments & international migration. The paper introduces three papers which examine the tensions & promises globalization brings for the capital city. It concludes with the challenge national governments face to balance spatial policies that strengthen the competitiveness of its capital regions with redistributive policies that are needed to develop subregions in the shadow of globalization. Adapted from the source document.

The economic growth in Pacific Asia is a result of the integration of various countries into the global economy. This integration is however disproportionate, impacting on major cities rather than intermediate cities and rural areas. The result is that as metropolitan economies expand, new migrants and foreign workers add to an urban cultural mosaic that is already complicated by new gender and class divisions. While urban societies in Pacific Asia have varying configurations, broad features can be discerned. One key force is the growing middle class and the new urban and suburban landscape of consumption, which coexist amidst the neighbourhoods of the urban proletariat and the squalor of the urban poor. The social and economic diversity implies new challenges for governments which have to balance growing urban aspirations against the interests of larger society as they walk the tightrope between harnessing the rewards of economic integration and attempting to shield society from the inequalities and instabilities created by the capitalist global economy.

With continuous economic growth in the 1970s and 1980s and increasing overseas competition, Singapore, as a small city-state with an open economy, faces perhaps the greatest challenge among the Asian newly industrialised economies in their attempts to maintain the pace of development. The effects of a chronic labour-supply situation and the appreciating Singapore dollar on the export competitiveness of the manufacturing sector are reviewed. Enterprise and state responses to these mounting pressures are examined, particularly with regard to the labour shortage. One optimistic long-term solution seems to lie in regional cooperation in industrial development, with a sectoral and technical division across Singapore, Johor in Malaysia, and the Riau Islands of Indonesia. With the three regions in different stages of development, the regional development plan is to bring about a division on the basis of the relative availability of land, labour, and infrastructure. In the second half of the paper, the Singapore—Johor link, the most developed side of the growth triangle is examined, and the potential and problems arising from this arrangement are explored.

This paper directs attention to the rapid industrial changes experienced by the city-state in the past thirty years and the problems associated with a maturing economy. To provide a deeper understanding of the adjustment process, the analysis is done within the context of firm, state, and labour interactions. The analysis indicates that with land and labour resources becoming fully utilised, the city-state adjusts to the requirements of international capital by increasing the regional, technical, and sectoral division of labour.

Intro -- Dedication -- Editor's Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I: Holistic Perspectives on the Progressive City in Concept and in Practice -- Chapter 1: The Rise of Progressive Cities East and West -- 1.1 Progressive Cities in a Global Urban Era -- 1.2 Research on Progressive Cities -- 1.3 Structure of the Book -- 1.3.1 Holistic Perspectives on Progressive Cities in Concept and Practice -- 1.3.2 Inclusion and Distributive Justice -- 1.3.3 Conviviality: Neighborhoods, the Commons, Heritage, and the Environment -- 1.4 Concluding Comment -- References -- Chapter 2: The Rise of Progressive Cities for Human and Planetary Flourishing: A Global Perspective on Asia's Urban Transition -- 2.1 Overview -- 2.2 Historical Antecedents of the Idea of Progressive Governance of Cities -- 2.3 Toward a Holistic Concept of Progressive Cities for Human Flourishing -- 2.3.1 Human Flourishing -- 2.3.2 Inclusion in Social and Public Life -- 2.3.3 Distributive Justice -- 2.3.4 Conviviality -- 2.3.5 Sustaining the Environment of Cities and the Earth's Ecosystems -- 2.4 Progressive Cities in Twenty-First-Century Asia -- References -- Chapter 3: A Progressive City in the Making? The Seoul Experience -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Progressive City in History and Practice -- 3.3 Seoul's Transition from Neo-developmental to Progressive City -- 3.3.1 Developmentalism and the City in Korea -- 3.3.2 Seoul: The Rise of Civic Leadership, Agenda Innovation, and Progressive Governance -- 3.4 Mayor Park's Reform Policies for a Progressive City -- 3.4.1 Inclusion: "Making Seoul as a City for the Citizens and by the Citizens" -- 3.4.2 Distributive Justice: "Welfare Is Not Charity but the Endowed Right of Citizens" -- 3.4.3 Conviviality: "I Want to Make Seoul a City Full of Fun" -- 3.4.4 Environmental Sustainability: "Make Seoul a City of Sunlight".