Abstract
Drawing on the recent changes in the Malaysian state of Penang, this book opens up new perspectives on urban development, governance and the politics of place. This book grounds its analysis in the controversies that have emerged over the extensive urban redevelopment and regeneration projects that have emerged since 2012, mostly associated with the ambitious Penang Transport Master Plan (PTMP). Reviewing the role of residents, activists, planners and other experts in socionatural changes and urban regeneration, it builds an important new framework of landscape political ecology (LPE). The LPE framework provides a new conceptual toolkit for making sense of the dramatic landscape transformations that are unfolding across much of Asia, and their socio-ecological implications.In doing so, Political Ecologies of Landscape provides a dynamic account of the ways in which local residents and activists struggle to resist the socio-natural transformation of their urban environment and propose alternative development strategies. It therefore contributes to emerging research seeking to understand how place-specific physical environments can act as facilitators for collective action in cities. The book further seeks to understand the ways in which large-scale urban redevelopment is transforming urban environments at the landscape scale, as well as the lived experience of individual neighbourhoods.
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