ABSTRACT
The work of Anthony D. King is among the very best of recent urban and global studies. This essay is a tribute in appreciation of Tony King as a scholar, mentor, and friend. It discusses some of his major contributions in the fields of global cities research, colonial and postcolonial urban studies, as well as his views on knowledge and positionality in relation to the location within which he is embedded. It is a mix of anecdotal and analytical notes written as a tribute to a great teacher who has reached a milestone - 90 years old.
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Notes
1 Brenner and Keil, The Global Cities, 196.
2 King, Colonial Urban Development, 18.
3 King, Buildings and Society, 9.
4 Ibid., 31.
5 Ibid., 31.
6 Spaces of Global Cultures, 202.
7 Ibid., chapter 11.
8 Ibid., 217.
9 Ibid., 213.
10 Ibid., 211.
11 Ibid., 209.
12 Ibid., 194–95.
13 Ibid., 198.
14 Spaces of Global Cultures, 199.
15 Spaces of Global Cultures, 218.
16 Yeoh, Contesting Space: 6.
17 Ibid.
18 King, “Rethinking Colonialism.”
19 King, Colonial Urban Development, 16.
20 Ibid., 15.
21 Ibid., 58.
22 King, Spaces of Global Cultures, 201.
23 King, The Bungalow, 152.
24 King, Colonial Urban Development, 66.
25 Ibid., 68.
26 Published respectively in King, Colonial Urban Development, chpt 4 and King, Spaces of Global Cultures, chpt 9.
27 King, ‘Writing Colonial Space,” 543.
28 Letter, 5 April 2000.
29 King, Spaces of Global Cultures, 207.
30 Ibid., 206.
31 King, Global Cities, 154.
32 King, Urbanism, Colonialism and the World Economy, ix.
33 King, “Writing Colonial Space,” 595.
34 Robinson, Ordinary Cities.
35 For such a discussion, see: Andreas Huyssen, “Introduction: World Cultures, World Cities.”
36 King, Spaces of Global Cultures, 192.
37 King, “The Global, the Urban, and the World,” 154.
38 King, ed., Representing the City, viii.
39 Email, 3 September 2019.
40 King, “Worlds in the City.”
41 King, Spaces of Global Cultures, chapter 7.
42 King and Kusno, “On Bei(ji)ng in the World.”
43 Ong, “Hyperbuilding.”
44 Course description ARTH 570G: The Production of Space, Spring 1992.
45 Course description ARTH 574A: Space, Form & Power, Fall 2000. (Words in brackets added).
46 Letter, 10 August 1999.
47 From the Archtext Series.
48 Postcard, 2 May 2021.
49 From the Archtext Series.
50 King, “Actually Existing Postcolonialisms,” 181.
51 Ibid., 180.
52 King, “Questionable Company.”
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Abidin Kusno
Abidin Kusno is professor at Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto where he also serves as director of York Centre for Asian Research. He wrote Visual Cultures of the Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016); After the New Oder: Space, Politics, and Jakarta (Hawaii University Press, 2013); The Appearances of Memory: Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia (Duke University Press, 2010); Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia (Routledge, 2000).