Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as text : urban landscapes, cultural documents, and interpretative experiences

Title: Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as text : urban landscapes, cultural documents, and interpretative experiences /
Publisher: Singapore : World Scientific Pub., c2003.

Other Author(s): Goh, Robbie B. H., 1964-
Yeoh, Brenda S. A.

Table of contents: Urbanism and post-colonial nationalities: theorizing the Southeast Asian city / Robbie B.H. Goh and Brenda S.A. Yeoh (p. 1-12)
Reading the Southeast Asian city in the context of rapid economic growth / Tan Kheng Soon with Robbie B.H. Goh (p. 13-28)
"The rise of the merlion": monuments and myth in the making of the Singapore story / Brenda S.A. Yeoh and T.C. Chang (p. 29-50)
Things to a void: Utopian discourse, communality and constructed interstices in Singapore public housing / Robbie B.H. Goh (p. 51-76)
Selective disclosure: romancing the Singapore river / Shirlena Huang and T.C. Chang (p. 77-108)
Malaysia’s high-tech cities and the construction of intelligent citizenship / Tim Bunnell (p. 109-134)
Museum/City/Nation: negotiating identities in urban museums in Indonesia and Singapore / Kathleen M. Adams (p. 135-158)
The urban and the urbane: modernization, modernism and the rebirth of Singapore cinema / Anthony R. Guneratne (p. 159-190)
Benjamin in Bombay? an Asian extrapolation / Rajeev Patke (p. 191-213).B°
Subject(s): Cities and towns --Southeast Asia.
Urbanization --Southeast Asia.
Urbanization --Singapore.
City planning --Southeast Asia.
City planning --Singapore.

Location: Swanston Library
Call Number: 307.760959 G614