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Theorizing The Southeast Asian City As Text: Urban Landscapes, Cultural Documents, And Interpretative Experiences
Author(s): Robbie B H Goh (Editor), Brenda S A Yeoh
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Publication Date: 21 May 2003
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 228 pages
- ISBN-10: 9812382836
- ISBN-13: 9789812382832
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
there is much of value in the book both theoretically and empirically — Urban Studies
