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The city as living room. Introduction: The city as space to be lived -- A city for people / Ute Meta Bauer -- An emergent Asian modernism: think tanks and the design of the environment / H Koon Wee -- SmellScape Singapore / Sissel Tolaas -- Figurations of place and plurality in William S W Lim's incomplete urbanism / Shirley Surya -- In the space of incompleteness / Laura Miotto -- The films for incomplete urbanism: dreaming of a void to come / Marc Gloede -- critical imagination and urban spaces of possibility / Sacha Kagan -- Global anglophone networks of tropical architecture / Jiat-Hwee Chang -- The city as multiple. Introduction: Mid-Century modern: forms and spaces in cities / Roger Nelson -- Thailand's shophouses: a people's history and their future / Chomchon Fusinpaiboon -- Revolution versus counter-revolution: the rise and fall of the people's party's modernist architecture / 1932-47 / Thanavi Chotpradit -- Phnom Penh's bassac riverfront: a modern cosmopolitan cultural precinct / Pen Sereypagna -- Strata megastructure: architecture of flexibility and enterprise / Calvin Chua -- The city as stage. Introduction: uneven development: setting the stage for practices of informality / Khim Ong -- Everything is fine, keep on urbanising!? / Yvonne P Doderer -- The Living City / John Wagner -- World Café: air, land, and water / Marjetica Potrč -- Idealising cities as a place of hope: arts, farming, food, sustainability, and rehearsals / Woon Tien Wei -- Conversation about datang untuk kembali / Arriving to Return / Indieguerillas, LuLu Lutfi Labibi, and Ari Wulu -- The multiple must be made: software for a city yet to come / Nashin Mahtani and Etienne Turpin -- Incomplete city walks: coffee shops and hawker centres / Magdalena Magiera -- Activating our cities through transdisciplinary transnational projects / Laura Anderson Barbata -- Cities For People NTU CCA Ideas Fest 2016/17 -- Afterword / William S W Lim -- Contributors' biographies -- Image credits -- Contribu