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Asian Cities : Colonial to Global /

When people look at success stories among postcolonial nations, the focus almost always turns to Asia, where many cities in former colonies have become key locations of international commerce and culture. This book brings together a stellar group of scholars from a number of disciplines to explore t...

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Otros Autores:	Bracken, Gregory (Editor )
Formato:	Electrónico eBook
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2015]
Colección:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:	Social Sciences. Sociology & Social History. Communities - Urban Groups. Colonial cities. Cities and towns. POLITICAL SCIENCE > World > Asian. Villes > Singapour. Villes coloniales > Singapour. Villes > Asie. Villes coloniales > Asie > Histoire. Villes coloniales > Asie. Cities and towns > Singapore. Colonial cities > Singapore. Cities and towns > Asia. Colonial cities > Asia > History. Colonial cities > Asia. Singapore. Asia. History. Electronic book. Electronic books.
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Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Asian Cities: Colonial to Global
Gregory Bracken
Part One
Post-colonialism
1. Gambling, City, Nation
Popular Illegality and Nation Building in Singapore, 1960s-1980s
Kah-Wee Lee
2. The Death of the Pasar Malam
The Counterpoint to Development in the Singapore Story
Elmo Gonzaga
3. Artifice and Authenticity
Postcolonial Urbanism in Macau
Thomas Daniell
4. Urban Art Images and the Concerns of Mainlandization in Hong Kong
Minna Valjakka
Part Two
Networks
5. Honkon Nippō and Hong Kong-Japan Relations
Re-examining the Geopolitical Position of Colonial Hong Kong in East Asia before the End of World War II
Wilson Wai Shing Lee
6. Chain Reactions
Japanese Colonialism and Global Cosmopolitanism in East Asia
Faye Yuan Kleeman
7. Old Networks with New Users
Mapping Global Mobility between Dongguan and Hong Kong
Max Hirsh
8. Asian Cities in the Global Maritime Network since the Late Nineteenth Century
Cesar Ducruet
9. Back to the Future
Feasible Cost-Sharing Co-operation in the Straits of Malacca
Senia Febrica
Part Three
Cities and Buildings
10. Rallying Towards the Nation
Theatre of Nation Building in Post-colonial Dhaka
Kishwar Habib and Bruno De Meulder
11. Selectively Connected
New Songdo and the Production of Global Space
Bridget Martin
12. The Vernacular and the Spectacular
Urban Identity and Architectural Heritage in Southeast Asian Cities
Rita Padawangi
13. Heritage in Times of Rapid Transformation
A Tale of Two Cities
Yangon and Hanoi
William Logan
14. Small-scale, Bottom-up
Cosmopolitan Linkages Reglobalizing Shanghai's City Centre
Ying Zhou
Conclusion
Global Cities in Asia
Gregory Bracken
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
Figures.
Figure 1.1 Factors influencing gambling frequency amongst industrial workers
Figure 1.2 'The individual as target'
Figure 1.3 Exposing gambling fortifications
Figure 1.4 'A gambling spot by any other name'
Figure 3.1 Plan de la Ville et du Port de Macao
Figure 3.2 Peninsula de Macau e Ilha da Taipa
Figure 3.3 Aerial photo of Z.A.P.E. Reclamation, 1941
Figure 3.4 Aomen shi quan tu (City Plan of Macau)
Figure 3.5 Z.A.P.E. in the 1980s
Figure 3.6 Álvaro Siza and P & T Group proposal for N.A.P.E. and Novos Aterros da Areia Preta
Figure 3.7 N.A.P.E. planning regulations
Figure 3.8 Eduardo Lima Soares, Nova Cidade de Cotai, plan
Figure 3.9 Eduardo Lima Soares, Nova Cidade de Cotai, model
Figure 3.10 Las Vegas Sands Corporation original proposal for the Cotai Strip, 2002
Figure 3.11 Novos Zonas Urbanas diagram
Figure 3.12 Novos Zonas Urbanas rendering
Figure 3.13 Novos Zonas Urbanas reclamation in progress
Figure 3.14 Rocco Yim, StarWorld Macau, 2006
Figure 3.15 Dennis Lau, Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino, 2007
Figure 3.16 View of the Cotai Strip
Figure 3.17 Gary Goddard, Galaxy Macau, 2011
Figure 3.18 AEDES, Sands Cotai Central, 2012
Figure 4.1 Tsang Tsou-choi (King of Kowloon), untitled (pair of iron gates), ink on iron gates, 200 cm x 270 cm
Figure 4.2 MAIS, ORSEK and JAMS, a spray-painted commemorative piece for Tsang in Fotan, 2007
Figure 4.3 Anonymous local artists, a sticker in MTR station, 2014
Figure 4.4 Anonymous local artists, a sticker in MTR train, 2014
Figure 4.5 Street artist Death, Mao with a Yellow Bowtie, stencil, 2012
Figure 4.6 Street photographer Cpak Ming, 'Modern VIIV spirit', photograph, 2011
Figure 4.7 Chin Tangerine, Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei?, stencil, 2011
Figure 4.8 Artist Kacey Wong, 'Attack of the Red Giant', 2014.
Figure 4.9 Street artists Start From Zero (SFZ), poster of Henry Tang, 2013
Figure 4.10 Graffiti artist RST2, spray-painted banners of local parties, 2013
Figure 4.11 Graffiti artist RST2, poster of Leung Kwok-hung, 2014
Figure 4.12 Graffiti artist Pibg Gantz, a spray-painted piece, Macau, 2012
Figure 5.1 Japanese submarine cables in East Asia, 1915
Figure 5.2 Planned cable routes in the East Asia Stability Sphere, 1940
Figure 5.3 The cable and wireless network, 1934
Figure 6.1 Bank of Korea (present day)
Figure 6.2 National Taiwan Museum 1949-present
Figure 6.3 Remains of torii gate (present day)
Figure 6.4 Taiwan's Presidential Palace (present day)
Figure 7.1 Hong Kong-Macau Passenger Ferry Terminal, Humen Town, Dongguan, China
Figure 7.2 Apartment blocks near the upstream check-in terminal, Dongguan
Figure 7.3 Rendering of SkyPier, Hong Kong International Airport
Terminal 1 in the background
Figure 7.4 APM tunnel between SkyPier and Terminal 1, Hong Kong International Airport
Figure 7.5 Mainland ferry staff at SkyPier, Hong Kong International Airport
Figure 7.6 Luggage cranes at SkyPier, Hong Kong International Airport
Figure 8.1 The Lloyd's Shipping Index in 1890
Figure 8.2 Global and local data source comparison based on the Chinese case, 1890-2008
Figure 8.3 Regional distribution of world vessel movements, 1890-2008
Figure 8.4 Regional distribution of vessel movements in Asia, 1890-2008
Figure 8.5 Traffic hierarchy of Asian port cities, 1890-2008
Figure 8.6 Port trajectories of selected Asian cities, 1890-2008
Figure 10.1 The timeline of Dhaka. The timeline shows the position of Ramna
a green oasis in-between indigenous and postcolonial extensions of the city.
Figure 10.2 Inside-out Ramna. These aerial photographs show Ramna as a forest or park at the centre in sharp contrast to the dense urban morphology
Figure 10.3 Open spaces in the capital. Ramna (number 10) is a vast open public space located at the heart of the capital
Figure 10.4 Dhaka City Map, 1859
Figure 10.5 Map of the new Civil Station of Dhaka (1905)
Figure 10.6 Neoclassical Dhaka College (left) and Indo-Saracenic Curzon Hall (right)
Figure 10.7 The wave of new construction around Ramna
Figure 10.8 Constantine Doxiadis's 1963 plan for the Teachers' Students' Centre (TSC), Ramna
Figure 10.9 Ramna in 1952 (left) and 1960 (right)
Figure 10.10 Pseudo-Islamic versus modern architecture in Ramna
Figure 10.11 The gradual transformation of Ramna racecourse from a maidan (open space) to a children's park and the city's recreational Park Suhrawardy Uddyan (left)
figure-ground plan of Ramna (right)
Figure 10.12 The Design interventions of Liberation War Museum at the historical Ramna racecourse (present Suhrawardy Uddyan)
Figure 10.13 Ramna holds a delicate balance between institutions, representative buildings, and monuments at the centre of the city
Figure 11.1 New Songdo's high-rise towers, including the First World Complex, with real estate advertisements lining the streets
Figure 11.2 IFEZ advertisements ('Developing the City at the Heart of South Korea's Leading Service Industries', right-hand poster translation)
Figure 11.3 Compact Smart City Exhibit Building
Figure 11.4 Model of New Songdo
Figure 11.5 Show-model apartment in New Songdo's POSCO (The Sharp at Greenworks)
Figure 11.6 New Songdo's border area
Figure 11.7 Ja-ap Village near New Songdo being demolished
Figure 12.1 Clarke Quay shophouses and the tourist boats
Figure 12.2 Museum Fatahillah in Kota Tua (Old Town), Jakarta.
Figure 13.1 The South Gate of the World Heritage-listed Thang Long-Hanoi citadel
Figure 13.2 The Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, a future World Heritage nomination?
Figure 13.3 The beaux-arts palace of the French Indochina Governor-General built in Hanoi in 1907
Figure 13.4 The neoclassical New Law Courts built in Yangon in 1927
Figure 13.5 Demolition site in Hanoi's French Quarter, 1990
Figure 13.6 Derelict warehouse, Yangon 2012
Figure 14.1 Cafe Volcan
Figure 14.2 Yongkang Road
Figure 14.3 Plan of Jing'an Villas, with ground-floor commercial insertions indicated
Figure 14.4 Jing'an Villas ground floor commercial viewed from the front courtyard
Figure 14.5 People reading the plaques of the heritage buildings on Wukang Road
Figure 14.6 Photos of the interior of huiguan club houses on Wukang Road
Figure 14.7 Map with the creative commercial activities highlighted and the three research areas around Yongkang Road, Jing'an Villas and Wukang Road
Tables
Table 1.1 Gambling-related offences, 1951-1973
Table 1.2 Number of prosecutions, 1967-1968
Table 9.1 Contribution of each state to the IIP.

Asian Cities : Colonial to Global /

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