Alternative (post)modernity : an Asian perspective

Author Lim, William Siew Wai, 1932-

Title Alternative (post)modernity : an Asian perspective / William S.W. Lim ; introduction by John Phillips.

Published Singapore : Select Pub., 2003.

UniM Archit 303.4 LIM

Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-173) and index.

Subject Social change.

Culture.

Globalization.

Urbanization -- Asia.

Architecture -- Asia.

Postmodernism.

Postcolonial urbanism : Southeast Asian cities and global processes

Title: Postcolonial urbanism : Southeast Asian cities and global processes /
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2003.

Other Author(s): Bishop, Ryan.
Phillips, John.
Yeo, Wei-Wei.


Table of contents: 1. Perpetuating Cities: Excepting Globalization and the Southeast Asia Supplement / Ryan Bishop, John Phillips and Wei-Wei Yeo
2. Global Cities, Terror, and Tourism: The Ambivalent Allure of the Urban Jungle / Kathleen M. Adams
3. The City as Target, or Perpetuation and Death / Ryan Bishop and Gregory 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.
Subject(s): Urbanization --Asia, Southeastern.
Cities and towns --Asia, Southeastern.
Globalization.

Location: Swanston Library
Call Number: 307.760959 P857

Enduring innocence : global architecture and its political masquerades

Title: Enduring innocence : global architecture and its political masquerades /
Main Author: Easterling, Keller, 1959-
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2005.

"In Enduring Innocence, Keller Easterling tells the stories of outlaw "spatial products" - resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, ports, and other hybrid spaces that exist outside normal constituencies and jurisdictions - in difficult political situations around the world. These spaces - familiar commercial formulas of retail, business, and trade - aspire to be worlds unto themselves, self-reflexive and innocent of politics. But as Easterling shows, these enclaves can become political pawns and objects of contention. Jurisdictionally ambiguous, they are imbued with myths, desires, and symbolic capital. Their hilarious and dangerous masquerades often mix quite easily with the cunning of political platforms. Easterling argues that the study of such "real estate cocktails" provides vivid evidence of the market’s weakness, resilience, or violence."
"Enduring Innocence collects six stories of spatial products and their political predicaments: cruise ship tourism in North Korea; high-tech agricultural formations in Spain (which have reignited labor wars and piracy in the Mediterranean); hyperbolic forms of sovereignty in commercial and spiritual organizations shared by gurus and golf celebrities; automated global ports; microwave urbanism in South Asian IT enclaves; and the global industry of building demolition that suggests urban warfare. These regimes of non-national sovereignty, writes Easterling, "move around the world like weather fronts"; she focuses not on their blending - their global connectivity - but on their segregation and the cultural collisions that ensue."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject(s): Architecture --Social aspects.
Architecture and globalization.
Architecture --Political aspects.

Location: Swanston Library
Call Number: 720.103 E13

Asia’s new regionalism

Title: Asia’s new regionalism /
Main Author: Frost, Ellen L.
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008.


Table of contents:
Asia’s new momentum
Remapping Asia
The legacy of maritime Asia
The great revival
Individuals as spontaneous integrators
Sources of the Asian integration movement
The architecture of regional integration
Trade, finance, and the politics of regionalism
Foreign policy and security cooperation
Assessing the promise of integration
Current obstacles and potential threats
Looking to the future.
Subject(s):
Asian cooperation.
Globalization --Economic aspects --Asia.
Regionalism --Asia.
Internationale samenwerking.
Regionalisme
Asia --Economic conditions --1945-
Asia --Economic integration.
Asia --Politics and government --1945-
Azieè.

Location: Business Library
Call Number: 337.15 F939
Number of Items: 1