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Title Postcolonial urbanism [electronic resource] : Southeast Asian cities and global processes / edited by Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei-Wei Yeo.

Imprint New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Description v, 335 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Urbanization -- Southeast Asia.
Cities and towns -- Southeast Asia.
Globalization.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Bishop, Ryan, 1959-
Phillips, John, 1956-
Yeo, Wei-Wei.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0415932491 (hardback)
0415932505 (pbk.)
9780415932493
9780203615898 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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