THEORIZING THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN CITY AS TEXT<br> Urban Landscapes, Cultural Documents, and Interpretative Experiences

THEORIZING THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN CITY AS TEXT
Urban Landscapes, Cultural Documents, and Interpretative Experiences

CONTENTS


FRONT MATTER	i
Urbanism and Post-Colonial Nationalities: Theorizing the Southeast Asian City Robbie B. H. Goh and Brenda S. A. Yeoh	1
Reading the Southeast Asian City in the Context of Rapid Economic Growth Kheng Soon Tay and Robbie B. H. Goh	13
“The Rise of the Merlion”: Monument and Myth in the Making of the Singapore Story Brenda S. A. Yeoh and T. C. Chang	29
Things to a Void: Utopian Discourse, Communality and Constructed Interstices in Singapore Public Housing Robbie B. H. Goh	51
Selective Disclosure: Romancing the Singapore River Shirlena Huang and T. C. Chang	77
Malaysia's High-Tech Cities and the Construction of Intelligent Citizenship Tim Bunnell	109
Museum/City/Nation: Negotiating Identities in Urban Museums in Indonesia and Singapore Kathleen M. Adams	135
The Urban and the Urbane: Modernization, Modernism and the Rebirth of Singaporean Cinema Anthony R. Guneratne	159
Benjamin in Bombay? An Asian Extrapolation Rajeev Patke	191
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