Introducing commercial spaces -- The industry and the city: knowledge practices as commercial experiments -- Mobility, market research and commercial aesthetics -- The commodity rhythms of urban space -- Fabulating commercial spaces: mediation, texts, and perception -- Perceiving urban change in...

"Based on years of field research, this study examines the construction of urban and suburban space in the Philippines since a recent housing boom caused by an influx of wealth from returning Filipino migrants. It analyzes various developments, such as the rise of gated suburban communities and...