Cars, conduits, and kampongs : the modernization of the Indonesian city, 1920-1960 /

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"Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of the cities in Indonesia between 1920 and 1960. The contributions present a case for asserting that Indonesian cities were not merely the backdrop to processes of modernization and rising nationalism, but formed a causal...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Colombijn, Freek, Coté, Joost, Colombijn, Freek, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden : BRILL, 2014.
Series:Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 295.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Cities and towns > Indonesia > History > 20th century.
Decolonization > Indonesia.
Urbanization > Indonesia.
Nationalism > Indonesia > History > 20th century.
Villes > Indonésie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Décolonisation > Indonésie.
Urbanisation > Indonésie.
Nationalisme > Indonésie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
Cities and towns.
Decolonization.
Nationalism.
Urbanization.
Indonesia.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Modernization of the Indonesian city, 1920-1960
  • pt. 1: State impositions and passive acceptance
  • 2. Call for doctors!: uneven medical provision and the modernization of state health care during the decolonization of Indonesia, 1930s-1950s
  • 3. (Post)colonial pipes: urban water supply in colonial and contemporary Jakarta
  • 4. Netherlands Indies town planning: an agent of modernization (1905-1957)
  • pt. 2: Partial accommodation
  • 5. Rückert and Hoesni Thamrin: bureaucrat and politician in colonial Kampong improvement
  • 6. Kotabaru and the housing estate as Bulwark against the indigenization of colonial Java
  • 7. Public housing in Semarang and the modernization of Kampongs, 1930-1960
  • 8. From autonomous village to 'informal slum': Kampong development and state control in Bandung (1930-1960)
  • 9. Breaking the boundaries: the Uniekampong and modernization of dock labour in Tanjung Priok, Batavia (1917-1949)
  • pt. 3: Selective appropriation
  • 10. Moving at a different velocity: the modernization of transportation and social differentiation in Surabaya in the 1920s
  • 11. The two alun-alun of Malang (1930-1960)
  • 12. The indonesianization of the symbols of modernity in Plaju (Palembang), 1930s-1960s
  • 13. Chinese cemeteries as a symbol of sacred space: control, conflict, and negotiation in Surabaya.

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