The Antecedents of Villagers’ Initial Trust in the Developer in Urban Village Redevelopment Projects

Wang, Yousong; Yao, Yao; Zhang, Yangbing; Hao, Zhibiao; Yan, Hui

doi:10.1061/9780784484562.066

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“…But masked from this, death of human modes of living, material bases and life paths are believed to be a must. Thus, the present sprawling Jakarta contains, to developer Wang (2022), ‘vast areas of impurity and decay that must be supplanted and replaced’. Wang's dilemma of constantly moving and roaming presences – of poor people, bad culture, degeneracy, blight – parallels Dracula's quandary: to replace impure blood with pure blood.…”

Section: Smart City Building: Jakartamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Silence and politics became eerie bedfellows. Through these projects, an idea was executed: rebirth of neighbourhoods and city sections would not begin another existence, death of ways would, what developer Wang (2022) called ‘our desire to totally re-make Jakarta's diseased parts, particularly its chaotic slums’. In Dracula-like fashion, then, the masked belief is that new urban life requires inevitable urban death.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Toward a Dracula urbanism: Smart city building in Flint and Jakarta

Wilson

Wyly

2022

Dialogues in Urban Research

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We study two places experiencing the rise of both the real-estate state and smart city building, Jakarta, Indonesia and Flint, USA. Our core thesis: these real-estate states work through and make a kind of urbanism that we term Dracula urbanism. We identify Dracula urbanism as a deep-reaching, human-punishing unfolding that is simultaneously a state of mind, a mode of institutional operation, a vision of people, one gaze onto growth's true needs and a kind of growth produced. Our Dracula urbanist notion that is seen to engulf real-estate states has four central features. First, the political and economic resources to drive smart city building are secured through ever-thickening parasitic relations, particularly with upper-level sources of power and authority. Second, city building involves unrelenting drives to kill and destroy (not rehabilitate or therapeutize) supposedly deep civic ‘cancers’, such as the poor's presumed anti-civic, morally and culturally deficient dispositions and ways. Third, city building is promoted through strategically deploying the materiality and discursive terrors of decline. Fourth, local real-estate states are decisively integrated into ‘planetary urbanizations’ through circuits of smart-growth capital investment and techno-scientific claims to expertise. All of these, we chronicle, are vintage characteristics of Stoker's rendition of Dracula. The results suggest that the cultural politics of in-your-face revanchism that Neil Smith helped us to see, and is still present in cities such as Flint and Jakarta, is today accompanied by an equally punishing, complicated and adroitly adapting state politics in these places.

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Section: Smart City Building: Jakartamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Smart City Building: Jakartamentioning

confidence: 99%