"The book gives prominent space to ethnographic accounts and detailed descriptions of urban phenomena in the respective chosen cities… There is no doubt that McKinnon’s message is important: cities in ‘developing Asia’ have divergent urban experiences ‘on the ground’ (p. 69), which urban theories developed from the Western experience cannot quite capture and explain."
"The book gives prominent space to ethnographic accounts and detailed descriptions of urban phenomena in the respective chosen cities… There is no doubt that McKinnon’s message is important: cities in ‘developing Asia’ have divergent urban experiences ‘on the ground’ (p. 69), which urban theories developed from the Western experience cannot quite capture and explain."