| Description |
xi, 213 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Urbanism and post-colonial nationalities: theorizing the Southeast Asian city / Robbie B.H. Goh and Brenda S.A. Yeoh (p. 1-12) -- Reading the Southeast Asian city in the context of rapid economic growth / Tan Kheng Soon with Robbie B.H. Goh (p. 13-28) -- "The rise of the merlion": monuments and myth in the making of the Singapore story / Brenda S.A. Yeoh and T.C. Chang (p. 29-50) -- Things to a void: Utopian discourse, communality and constructed interstices in Singapore public housing / Robbie B.H. Goh (p. 51-76) -- Selective disclosure: romancing the Singapore river / Shirlena Huang and T.C. Chang (p. 77-108) -- Malaysia's high-tech cities and the construction of intelligent citizenship / Tim Bunnell (p. 109-134) -- Museum/City/Nation: negotiating identities in urban museums in Indonesia and Singapore / Kathleen M. Adams (p. 135-158) -- The urban and the urbane: modernization, modernism and the rebirth of Singapore cinema / Anthony R. Guneratne (p. 159-190) -- Benjamin in Bombay? an Asian extrapolation / Rajeev Patke (p. 191-213).B* |
| Summary |
Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text examines the ways in which culture, ethnicity, languages, traditions, governance, policies and histories interplay in the creation of the urban experiences in contemporary Southeast Asian cities. It focuses on the ways in which urban spatial forms are textual experiences, subject to interpretative strategies and the influence of other discourses. In addition it also analyzes the experiences of modernization in such cities, but also in terms of the strategies of containment, refurbishment, and loss which this has occasioned. [from publisher's advertisement] |
| Notes |
"This volume represents a selection of papers first presented at an international conference on the 'City as text : urban topographies and critical interventions', in September 1999"--P. vii |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Cities and towns -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses.
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City and town life -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses.
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Landscape assessment -- Singapore -- Congresses.
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Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Urbanization -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses.
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Urbanization -- Singapore -- Congresses.
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City planning -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses.
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City planning -- Singapore -- Congresses.
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Cities and towns -- Southeast Asia.
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City planning -- Southeast Asia.
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Urbanization -- Southeast Asia.
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Urbanization -- Southeast Asia.
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Urbanization -- Singapore.
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City planning -- Singapore.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Goh, Robbie B. H., 1964-
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Yeoh, Brenda S. A.
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| LC no. |
2003411862 |
| ISBN |
9812382836 hardback |
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