Postcolonial urbanism : Southeast Asian cities and global processes / / edited by Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei-Wei Yeo

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (343 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.76/0959
• Soggetto topico: Urbanization - Southeast Asia; Cities and towns - Southeast Asia; Globalization
• Altri autori: BishopRyan <1959-> PhillipsJohn <1956-> YeoWei-Wei
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: A 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Postcolonial urbanism
• ISBN: 1-136-06050-2; 0-203-61589-1; 1-283-96351-5; 1-136-06042-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808028103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II