Title & Author:

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

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Description:

v, 335 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Perpetuating cities : excepting globalization and the Southeast Asia supplement / Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei-Wei Yeo -- Global cities, terror and tourism : the ambivalent allure of the urban jungle / Kathleen Adams -- The city as target, or perpetuation and death / Ryan Bishop and Gregory K. Clancey -- From the hypermodern city to the gray zone of total mobilization in the Philippines / John Armitage and Joanne Roberts -- Urban space in the French imperial past and the postcolonial present / Richard L. Derderian-- Sharing space in the urban botanic gardens of Singapore and Malaysia, 1786-2000 / Emma Reisz -- Gay capitals in global gay history : cities, local markets, and the origins of Bangkok's same-sex cultures / Peter A. Jackson -- Actually existing postcolonialisms : colonial urbanism and architecture after the postcolonial turn / Anthony D. King -- Jakarta as a site of fragmegrative tensions / James N. Rosenau and Diane Wildsmith -- Regionalism, English narrative and Singapore as home and global city / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim -- 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 -- City as theatre : Singapore, state of distraction / Wei-Wei Yeo -- Perpetual returns : vampires and the ever-colonized city / Steve Pile -- Benjamin's Arcades project and the postcolonial city / Rajeev S. Patke -- Deus ex machina : evangelical sites, urbanism, and the construction of social identities / Robbie B.H. Goh.

Summary:

This book shows that cities in the postcolonial world are producing novel forms of urbanism not reducible to Western models. An international cast of contributors focuses on the heavily urbanized world region of Southeast Asia to investigate the forms of urbanism germinating in postcolonial settings such as Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Hanoi and the Philippines offering a mix of theoretical perspectives and empirical accounts. [from publisher's advertisement].

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415932491
9780415932493
0415932505 (pbk.)
9780415932509 (pbk.)

Subject:

Urbanization Southeast Asia.
Cities and towns Southeast Asia.
Globalization.
Urbanisation Asie du Sud-Est.
Villes Asie du Sud-Est.
Mondialisation.
globalism.
74.72 urban planning.
Cities and towns.
Urbanization.
Internationalisierung
Verstädterung
Urbanisatie.
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Postkolonialisme.
Southeast Asia.
Südostasien

Added entries:

Bishop, Ryan, 1959-
Phillips, John, 1956-
Yeo, Wei-Wei.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227137
Call No.: HT384.A78 P67 2003
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available