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THEORIZING THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN CITY AS TEXT
Urban Landscapes, Cultural Documents, and Interpretative Experiences
edited by (National University of Singapore) (National University of Singapore) 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. |
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| Readership: Undergraduates, graduate students, academics and professionals in architecture and urban planning. | |
“… 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.” |
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Urban Studies |
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| 228pp Pub. date: May 2003 | |
| eISBN: 9789812791283 | |
| Purchase book at WorldSciBook | |
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