The tropes of “Rising Asia,” or the “Rising Asian City,” are seemingly everywhere in the media, business, politics, and academic scholarship. They sometimes appear uncritically as a trope and sometimes as a critique of the trope itself. Here we will be keeping a running list of places where they appear.

This list begins as a disorganized collection of references to the trope of rising Asia. After a period of collection, we will begin to curate the list, and analyze it, looking for trends and themes.

• A.B. (09/01/2011, 01/22/2016). “Hotel Prices: The rising cost of a night in Istanbul.” The Economist. from http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2011/09/hotel-prices.
• Asia House. “Rising Cities of Asia, Asia House guide to doing business.” Retrieved 01/22/2016, 2016, from http://asiahouse.org/business-policy/publications/rising-cities-asia/.
• Asia House (2014). “Rising Cities of Asia: A Quick Guide to Navigating Medan.” from http://issuu.com/asiahouse/docs/medan.
• Barnes, L. A. (01/27/2014). “Tokyo Rising.” Retrieved 01/22/2016, from http://www.property-report.com/special-feature-tokyo-rising/.
• Bland, B. (10/18/2012). “Middle-Class Money Powers Indonesia’s Rising Cities.” Financial Times. from http://www.cnbc.com/id/49458117.
• Bland, B. (2012, 10/17/2012). “Middle Class Money powers rising cities.” Financial Times. from http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9ecd1b96-0ecc-11e2-ba6b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3ov999rOa.
• Brooke, J. (01/04/2002). “A Builder Sees Tokyo Rising Ever Upward; Big Bets on End of Sardine Commuting.” The New York Times. from http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/04/business/a-builder-sees-tokyo-rising-ever-upward-big-bets-on-end-of-sardine-commuting.html?pagewanted=all.
• Carpenter, T. G. (04/07/2010). “Tokyo Rising.” Retrieved 01/22/2016, from http://nationalinterest.org/article/tokyo-rising-3429.
• Chow, M. D. (10/13/2015). “Alor Star a rising star.” New Straits Times Online. from http://www.nst.com.my/news/2015/10/alor-star-rising-star.
• Crow, K. (09/17/2011). “Istanbul Rising.” The Wall Street Journal. from http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111904353504576567072239682768.
• Deutsche Welle. “Rising from the Ruins – The Rebuilding of Aceh.” Retrieved 01/16/2016, from http://www.dw.com/en/rising-from-the-ruins-the-rebuilding-of-aceh/g-18139714.
• Edelman Indonesia (12/10/2014). “Move over Jakarta: Bandung, Surabaya on the Rise.” Retrieved 01/16/2016, from http://www.edelman.id/move-jakarta-bandung-surabaya-rise/.
• Farrow, B. (07/01/2014). “Tokyo Rising.” United Hemispheres. from http://www.hemispheresmagazine.com/2014/07/01/tokyo-rising-2/.
• Holmes Report (09/13/2012). “Tokyo Rising.” Retrieved 01/22/2016, from http://www.holmesreport.com/long-reads/article/tokyo-rising.
• Kotkin, J. (04/08/2013). “The World’s Fastest Growing Mega-Cities (Tokyo, Jakarta, Seoul, Delhi, Shanghai and Manila).” Forbes. from http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2013/04/08/the-worlds-fastest-growing-megacities/#2715e4857a0b4533707d24cd.
• Kumagai, J. and W. Sweet (2004). “East Asia Rising.” IEEE Spectrum. October 2004, from http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1338785.
• Lepeska, D. (07/02/2014). “Istanbul’s gentrification by force leaves locals feeling overwhelmed and angry.” theguardian.com. from http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/jul/02/istanbul-gentrification-force-locals-angry-luxury-hotels-turkey.
• Leris, K. (02/23/2012). “Rising to the Reform Challenge: Doing Business in Indonesia.” 01/16/2016, from http://blogs.worldbank.org/psd/moving-towards-reform-doing-business-in-indonesia.
• Mishra, P. (05/15/2012). “Bangkok Rising.” T Magazine. from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/t-magazine/travel/bangkok-rising.html?_r=0.
• One Billion Rising Indonesia (2013). “Semarang is Rising!”. Retrieved 01/16/2016, from http://obr-indonesia.org/2013/02/semarang-is-rising/.
• propertywire.com (11/05/2013). “Property prices in Istanbul expected to continue rising.” Retrieved 01/22/2016, from http://www.propertywire.com/news/europe/turkey-istanbul-property-prices-201311058423.html.
• Robins, K. and A. Aksoy (1995). “Istanbul Rising: Returning the Repressed to Urban Culture.” European Urban and Regional Studies. Retrieved 3, 2, from http://eur.sagepub.com/content/2/3/223.full.pdf.
• Rowher, J. (1996). “Asia Rising: Why America Will Prosper as Asia’s Economies Boom.” from https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=S9nRVRE6XpUC&oi=fnd&pg=PA11&dq=asia+rising&ots=PtjW5E0EZo&sig=TTNPAsJdYiCuG-kczJRD9HnKRok#v=onepage&q=asia%20rising&f=false.
• Ruff, A. (09/20/2010). “Turkic Summit in Istanbul: Rising Turkey.” altnews.asia. 01/22/2016, from http://altnews.asia/content/2010/09/20/turkic-summit-istanbul-rising-turkey.
• Schroeder, C. M. (03/26/2013). “Istanbul Startups Rising — and Expanding Throughout MENA.” Retrieved 01/22/2016, from https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20130326231028-18642888-istanbul-startups-rising-and-expanding-throughout-mena also at https://pando.com/2013/03/26/building-a-delivery-startup-in-turkey-with-epic-traffic-scant-funding-and-no-broadband/.
• Seidensticker, E. (1991). “Tokyo Rising : The City Since the Great Earthquake “. from https://books.google.com/books/about/Tokyo_Rising.html?id=5wsOAQAAMAAJ.
• Shufei, E. (10/30/2015). “Kuala Lumpur Rising.” Retrieved 01/16/2016, from http://www.theedgeproperty.com.my/content/kuala-lumpur-rising.
• Skyscraper City (2012). “[Poll] Which city will be the rising skyscraper star in the next 5-10 years in Indonesia? | 2.0.” Retrieved 01/16/2016, from http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1528939.
• Tan, C. (05/10/2015). “Mainland Penang rising, secondary choice to island ending.” Retrieved 01/16/2016, from http://www.penangpropertytalk.com/2015/05/mainland-penang-rising-secondary-choice-to-island-ending/.
• theguideistanbul.com (11/11/2014). “Contemporary Istanbul’s New Face.” Retrieved 01/22/2016, from http://www.theguideistanbul.com/article/contemporary-istanbuls-new-face.
• Tokyo Fashion News (09/09/2011). “Tokyo Rising – Documentary About Fashion in Post-Earthquake Japan w/ Pharrell Williams.” Retrieved 01/22/2016, from http://tokyofashion.com/tokyo-rising-documentary-movie-fashion-in-japan/.
• Trautlein, S. (06/27/2011). “Tokyo rising: 4 landmarks in the capital’s new vertical landscape.” CNN Travel. from http://travel.cnn.com/tokyo/shop/tokyo-rising-capitals-new-vertical-retail-landscape-790797/.
• Winston, K. (2015, 10/16/2015). “Ethics and the Professions – Good Practitioners in a Rising Asia.” Talk at Harvard on Rising Asia. from http://asiaevents.harvard.edu/event/ethics-and-professions-%E2%80%93-good-practitioners-rising-asia.
• Wong, J. (10/12/2012). “Ipoh Rising.” Retrieved 01/16/2016, from http://www.starproperty.my/index.php/articles/investment/ipoh-rising/.
• World Bank Group (08/13/2012). “The Rise of Metropolitan Regions: Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Regional Development.” Retrieved 01/16/2016, from http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2012/08/13/towards-inclusive-and-sustainable-regional-development.
• Yusri, A. (01/03/2015). “Rising Star in the South.” Retrieved 01/16/2016, from http://www.theantdaily.com/Main/Rising-star-in-the-south.