![]() The classic visual image of the “rising Asian city.” 2012. In this sense, the concept of the rising city often follows on visual assumptions, guided by metaphors of construction-assuming that cities literally rise as buildings do, and that the more skyscrapers a city has, the more that city is said to have risen. ![]() To date, this question has been commonly approached as a purely quantitative exercise in measuring growth-tales of rising cities are typically based on descriptions of the accumulation of capital in urban bank accounts, statistical data about rising urban population levels, and the literal accretion of concrete, steel, and glass on the surface of the earth. In recent years, it has become common for news reports, political statements, business guides, and scholarly works to make reference to the concept of “the Rise of Asian Cities.” This workshop series will step back from this often hyperbolic genre of writing and ask scholars across the university to contemplate what, in a basic philosophical or even linguistic sense, it means when we say that a city is “rising”? What does it mean to say that Asian cities are rising? This project begins with a straightforward question: ![]() Contemplating the Rise of Asian Cities: Initial Concepts and Provocations ![]()
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