Yeoh Seng Guan, ed. The Other Kuala Lumpur: Living in the Shadows of a Globalising Southeast Asian City

The rapid growth of Asian cities in recent decades, fueled by neoliberal policies, the accelerating production of real estate, and the global circulation of unprecedented amounts of capital, has received a great deal of scholarly attention over the past two decades.Scholarship has focused particularly on the political elites and their urban policies, the command and control centers of global capital, and the movers and shakers who circulate ideas.As a counter to the study of topdown urban processes and urban spectacles, there have been growing calls for empirical studies that examine how "regular" or marginalized urban residents are affected by these sudden urban changes, how they negotiate fragmentary spaces, and the survival strategies they develop in an environment that is hostile to their presence.The Other Kuala Lumpur: Living in the Shadows of a Globalising Southeast Asian City is a valuable contribution to this literature.Edited by Yeoh Seng Guan, the collection seeks to illuminate the Kuala Lumpur beyond its ambitious development agenda and "world-class" aspirations.Eight essays document the lives of residents-both citizens