Ghosts of the New City : Spirits, Urbanity, and the Ruins of Progress in Chiang Mai /
Chiang Mai (literally, "new city") suffered badly in the 1997 Asian financial crisis as the Northern Thai real estate bubble collapsed along with the Thai baht, crushing dreams of a renaissance of Northern prosperity. Years later, the ruins of the excesses of the 1990s still stain the skyl...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
2014.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction: the broken building
- Progress and its ruins
- Foundations
- Mediums
- Lanna style
- Rebuilding Lanna
- Conclusion: the city doesn't have a future.