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Theorizing the Southeast Asian city as text [electronic resource]
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Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text examines the ways in which culture, ethnicity, languages, traditions, governance, policies and histories interplay in the creation of the urban experiences in contemporary Southeast Asian cities. It focuses on the ways in which urban spatial forms are textual experiences, subject to interpretative strategies and the influence of other discourses. In addition it also analyzes the experiences of modernization in such cities, but also in terms of the strategies of containment, refurbishment, and loss which this has occasioned.
| Title |
Theorizing the Southeast Asian city as text [electronic resource] : urban landscapes, cultural documents, and interpretative experiences / Robbie B.H. Goh, Brenda S.A. Yeoh. |
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| Publisher |
Singapore River Edge, NJ : World Scientific |
| Creation Date |
c2003 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record. Includes bibliographical references. English |
| Content |
Contents Acknowledgements List of Contributors Urbanism and Post-Colonial Nationalities: Theorizing the Southeast Asian City References Chapter 1 Reading the Southeast Asian City in the Context of Rapid Economic Growth Chapter 2 ""The Rise of the Merlion"": Monument and Myth in the Making of the Singapore Story Introduction Lion with the Fishy Tale: The Merlion Story The Merlion as a Tourism Icon The Merlion as National Icon? Future Myth? Chapter 3 Things to a Void: Utopian Discourse, Communality and Constructed Interstices in Singapore Public Housing IntroductionThe Empire of Voids - Communality/Surveillance, Difference/Sameness Void Encounters - Reading/Positioning without Purpose The Political Economy of the Void: Ambivalence, Dislocation, and Utopian Discourse Afterword: Postmodernisms, Global Cityscapes, Appropriations, and Insertions Chapter 4 Selective Disclosure: Romancing the Singapore River Landscape as Palimpest The Singapore River Story Romancing the Singapore River Conclusion Chapter 5 Malaysia's High-Tech Cities and the Construction of Intelligent Citizenship Cities and National CitizenshipThe Text and National Government The Intelligent City and the National Construction of Information Society and Economy Textual Cities and Intelligent Citizens 1. Learning and technological upgrading 2. Appropriate social constructions of new technology Chapter 6 Museum/City/Nation: Negotiating Identities in Urban Museums in Indonesia and Singapore Introduction: Museums as ""Cathedrals of Urban Modernity"" Gazes of the Nation: The Central Museum in Jakarta The Context: Background on Indonesia's Museums The Nusa Tenggara Timur Provincial Museum in KupangThe Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore: A Partial, Unfinished Text Reflections Chapter 7 The Urban and the Urbane: Modernization, Modernism and the Rebirth of Singaporean Cinema Chapter 8 Benjamin in Bombay? An Asian Extrapolation The Profane Aura of the City The City as Rune The City as Trace The City as Kitsch The City as Labyrinth A Poetics of Shock The Surreal City The City of Violence |
| Extent |
1 online resource (226 p.) |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
997010715166205171 |
MARC RECORDS
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