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Speculative Fictions and Green Fantasies : = Constructing Forest City, Malaysia as a Model Eco-City from Scratch.

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Title/Author:	Speculative Fictions and Green Fantasies :/
Reminder of title:	Constructing Forest City, Malaysia as a Model Eco-City from Scratch.
Author:	Avery, Emma.
Description:	1 online resource (151 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-10.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International84-10.
Subject:	Real estate sales. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798377670704

Speculative Fictions and Green Fantasies : = Constructing Forest City, Malaysia as a Model Eco-City from Scratch.
Avery, Emma.

Speculative Fictions and Green Fantasies :Constructing Forest City, Malaysia as a Model Eco-City from Scratch. - 1 online resource (151 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-10.

Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University (Canada), 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

Urban mega-developments have proliferated across the Global South over the past two decades, seen by private and public sector actors as strategic vehicles for accruing profit, developing green technologies, diversifying the economy, and attracting international investment. Simultaneous global trends including the financialization of housing and the dramatic growth in Chinese foreign investment are intertwined with the story of urban mega-development in many places in the world, notably in Malaysia. In the Special Economic Zone of Iskandar Malaysia in the state of Johor, there are at least eight Chinese-financed, -planned, and -constructed real estate developments since 2012 with a gross developmental value of over U.S.$1 billion each. This thesis examines Forest City, a new master-planned 'green' city being built on four artificial islands off the south coast of Malaysia by Country Garden, the largest property developer in China. In contrast to the notion that new cities are constructed on a 'blank slate', I use Forest City as a case study to examine the contested implementation process of a master-planned megaproject, and the evolving strategies its foreign developer pursues to generate confidence, attract praise, and counter criticism. First, I outline the speculative nature of Forest City's planning and development, including how the developer's marketing of the project has evolved in response to local and transnational dynamics. In doing so, I explore the precarious nature of a Chinese-financed project abroad, as its developer is forced to navigate the local context and adapt the project's branding and strategy. Second, I further unpack Forest City's green identity as a key marketing tactic and publicity strategy. More specifically, I examine how this green identity is shaped and reinforced by the global urban awards industry, and outline the implications of Forest City's awards for the global trend of building eco-cities from scratch. Throughout this thesis, I endeavour to ground the new city and its claims to the local context in which it is situated, and identify the impacts of its construction on villagers in the area, whose culture and livelihoods depend on the ecosystems Forest City disrupts and drains resources from.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798377670704Subjects--Topical Terms:

1465921
Real estate sales.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

Speculative Fictions and Green Fantasies : = Constructing Forest City, Malaysia as a Model Eco-City from Scratch.
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