LEADER 04183oam 2200673I 450 001 9910808028103321 005 20240131152330.0 010 $a1-136-06050-2 010 $a0-203-61589-1 010 $a1-283-96351-5 010 $a1-136-06042-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203615898 035 $a(CKB)2670000000325174 035 $a(EBL)1111543 035 $a(OCoLC)826854942 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000820254 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11470576 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000820254 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10862756 035 $a(PQKB)10187574 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1111543 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1111543 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10647846 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL427601 035 $a(OCoLC)825767540 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB134131 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000325174 100 $a20180706d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aPostcolonial urbanism $eSoutheast Asian cities and global processes /$fedited by Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei-Wei Yeo 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (343 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-93250-5 311 $a0-415-93249-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. 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. 330 $aA 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 Western urbanism. Despite being heavily colonized in the past, Southeast Asia has been largely ignored in discussions about postcolonial theory and in general considerations of global urbanism. An international cast of contributors focuses on the heavily urbanized world region of Southeast Asia to inves 606 $aUrbanization$zSoutheast Asia 606 $aCities and towns$zSoutheast Asia 606 $aGlobalization 615 0$aUrbanization 615 0$aCities and towns 615 0$aGlobalization. 676 $a307.76/0959 701 $aBishop$b Ryan$f1959-$0862059 701 $aPhillips$b John$f1956-$01701744 701 $aYeo$b Wei-Wei$01701745 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808028103321 996 $aPostcolonial urbanism$94085728 997 $aUNINA