Local city, capital city or world city? Civil society, the (post-) developmental state and the globalization of urban space in Pacific Asia

The rise of civil society and the breach of urban space by global finance and retail capital are creating new dynamics in the capital city as its spaces for local and national social and political life are marginalized by world city formation and commodification of urban space for global accumulation. Case studies show that the active participation of civil society in the public sphere is crucial to sustaining and producing new community and civic spaces in the face of these trends.