Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya : negotiating urban space in Malaysia / Ross King.

Main entry:

King, Ross.

Title & Author:

Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya : negotiating urban space in Malaysia / Ross King.

Publication:

Honolulu : Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with University of Hawaii Press, 2008.

Description:

xxviii, 321 pages : bill. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Southeast Asia publications series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-299) and index.
The phenomenal city : diversities of spaces -- The contested city : race and the social production of space -- The imagined city : Putrajaya, Cyberjaya and the multimedia super corridor -- The forgotten city : spatial representations and their absences -- The metamorphic city : in the interstices of the hyperspace, cyberspace and the Malay world -- Afterword : the widening divide or conciliatory space.

Summary:

"Arguably Southeast Asia's most spectacular city, Kuala Lumpur--widely known as KL--has just celebrated fifty years as the national capital of Malaysia. But KL now has a very different twin in Putrajaya, the country's new administrative capital. Where KL is a diverse, cosmopolitan, multiracial metropolis, Putrajaya fulfills an elitest vision of a Malay-Muslim utopia. KL's multicultural richness is reflected in the brilliance and diversity of its architecture and urban spaces; Putrajaya, by contrast, is an architectural homage to an imagined Middle East. The "purity" of Putrajaya throws the cosmopolitan diversity of Kuala Lumpur into sharp relief, and the tension between the two places reflects the rifts that run through Malaysian society. In this copiously illustrated book, Ross King considers what form of metropolis the Kuala Lumpur-Putrajaya region might foreshadow, arguing that signs of this future city are to be sought in the collision points between the utopian dreams of imagined futures and the reality of purposely forgotten pasts. Drawing on postcolonial studies, media studies, and critical social theory, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya makes a significant contribution to architecture, urban planning, urban design, and Malaysian politics and society."--Book cover.

Resources:
Table of contents
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780824833183 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
082483318X (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Cities and towns Malaysia Kuala Lumpur.
Cities and towns Malaysia Putrajaya.
Villes Malaisie Kuala Lumpur.
Villes Malaisie Putrajaya.
71.14 urban society.
Cities and towns.
Social conditions
Städer Malaysia.
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) Social conditions.
Putrajaya (Malaysia) Social conditions.
Kuala Lumpur (Malaisie) Conditions sociales.
Putrajaya (Malaisie) Conditions sociales.
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysia Putrajaya.
Kuala Lumpur
Putrajaya
Malaysia.

Added entries:

Asian Studies Association of Australia
Southeast Asia publications series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277425
Call No.: BIB 212240
Status: Available

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