{"product_id":"9789814486590","title":"Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text: Urban Landscapes, Cultural Documents, and Interpretative Experiences","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTheorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUrbanism and Post-Colonial Nationalities: Theorizing the Southeast Asian City \u003ci\u003e(R B H Goh \u0026amp; B S A Yeoh)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReading the Southeast Asian City in the Context of Rapid Economic Growth \u003ci\u003e(K S Tay \u0026amp; R B H Goh)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e“The Rise of the Merlion”: Monument and Myth in the Making of the Singapore Story \u003ci\u003e(B S A Yeoh \u0026amp; T C Chang)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThings to a Void: Utopian Discourse, Communality and Constructed Interstices in Singapore Public Housing \u003ci\u003e(R B H Goh)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSelective Disclosure: Romancing the Singapore River \u003ci\u003e(S Huang \u0026amp; T C Chang)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMalaysia's High-Tech Cities and the Construction of Intelligent Citizenship \u003ci\u003e(T Bunnell)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMuseum\/City\/Nation: Negotiating Identities in Urban Museums in Indonesia and Singapore \u003ci\u003e(K M Adams)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Urban and the Urbane: Modernization, Modernism and the Rebirth of Singaporean Cinema \u003ci\u003e(A R Guneratne)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBenjamin in Bombay? An Asian Extrapolation \u003ci\u003e(R Patke)\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReadership:\u003c\/b\u003e Undergraduates, graduate students, academics and professionals in architecture and urban planning.\u003cbr\u003eKeywords:Urban Studies;Southeast Asian Cities;Society and Culture;Literature;MediaReview:\u003ci\u003e“… there is much of value in the book both theoretically and empirically and it certainly deserves a readership beyond those interested in South-east Asia … this edited collection provides a good illustration of the benefits of taking the cultural turn, interpreting texts very broadly to cover anything from the built environment through museums and films as cultural artifacts to the role of the flâneur in construing rather than constructing the city.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUrban Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e0","brand":"World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47185519280368,"sku":"9789814486590","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789814486590_p0.jpg?v=1763691444","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789814486590","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}