Bae-Gyoon Park & Richard Child Hill 
Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia [EPUB ebook] 
Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States

List of Contributors vii
Series Editors’ Preface x
1 Introduction: Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia 1
Richard Child Hill, Bae-Gyoon Park, and Asato Saito
2 Industry Clusters and Transnational Networks: Japan’s
New Directions in Regional Policy 27
Kuniko Fujita and Richard Child Hill
3 State-Space Relations in Transition: Urban and Regional Policy
in Japan 59
Asato Saito
4 Developmental Neoliberalism and Hybridity of the Urban Policy
of South Korea 86
Byung-Doo Choi
5 Spatially Selective Liberalization in South Korea and
Malaysia: Neoliberalization in Asian Developmental States 114
Bae-Gyoon Park and Josh Lepawsky
6 Clusters as a Policy Panacea? Critical Reflections on the
Cluster Policies of South Korea 148
Yong-Sook Lee
7 Moving toward Neoliberalization? The Restructuring of the
Developmental State and Spatial Planning in Taiwan 167
Chia-Huang Wang
8 Neoliberalism, the Developmental State, and Housing Policy in
Taiwan 196
Yi-Ling Chen and William Derhsing Li
9 Reforming Health: Contrasting Trajectories of Neoliberal
Restructuring in the City-States 225
Stephen W.K. Chiu, K.C. Ho, and Tai-lok Lui
10 ‘Detroit of the East’: A Multiscalar Case Study
of Regional Development Policy in Thailand 257
Richard Child Hill and Kuniko Fujita
11 Concluding Remarks 294
Bae-Gyoon Park and Asato Saito
Index 303

Bae-Gyoon Park is an Associate Professor of Geography the
College of Education at Seoul National University in Korea. Park
has recently published papers in International Journal of Urban
and Regional Research, Political Geography, Economic
Geography and Critical Asian Studies.
Richard Child Hill is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at
Michigan State University. Hill’s published writings include
Japanese Cities in the World Economy ( 1993), Nested
Cities: The State and Urban Development in East Asia (2003),
and Innovative Tokyo (2005), all co-authored with Kuniko
Fujita.
Asato Saito is Visiting Lecturer in the Faculty of Social
Policy and Administration at Hosei University. He is currently
involved in studies comparing the governance arrangement at
metropolitan and regional scale in four world cities: London, New
York, Paris and Tokyo; and one investigating New Regionalism and
Smart Growth in US cities.