Postcolonial Urbanism : Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes.
A common assumption about cities throughout the world is tht they are essentially an elaboration of the Euro-American model. Postcolonial Urbanism demonstrates the narrowness of this vision. Cities in the postcolonial world, the book shows, are producing novel forms of urbanism not reducible to West...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Perpetuating cities : excepting globalization and the Southeast Asia supplement / Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei-Wei Yeo
- 2. Global cities, terror and tourism : the ambivalent allure of the urban jungle / Kathleen Adams
- 3. The city as target, or perpetuation and death / Ryan Bishop and Gregory K. Clancey
- 4. From the hypermodern city to the gray zone of total mobilization in the Philippines / John Armitage and Joanne Roberts
- 5. Urban space in the French imperial past and the postcolonial present / Richard L. Derderian
- 6. Sharing space in the urban botanic gardens of Singapore and Malaysia, 1786-2000 / Emma Reisz
- 7. Gay capitals in global gay history : cities, local markets, and the origins of Bangkok's same-sex cultures / Peter A. Jackson
- 8. Actually existing postcolonialisms : colonial urbanism and architecture after the postcolonial turn / Anthony D. King
- 9. Jakarta as a site of fragmegrative tensions / James N. Rosenau and Diane Wildsmith
- 10. Regionalism, English narrative and Singapore as home and global city / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
- 11. Contemporary cities with colonial pasts and global futures : some aspects of the relations between governance, order, and decent, secure life / George E. Marcus and Angela Rivas Gamboa
- 12. City as theatre : Singapore, state of distraction / Wei-Wei Yeo
- 13. Perpetual returns : vampires and the ever-colonized city / Steve Pile
- 14. Benjamin's Arcades project and the postcolonial city / Rajeev S. Patke
- 15. Deus ex machina : evangelical sites, urbanism, and the construction of social identities / Robbie B.H. Goh.