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In seeking to answer the question Whose Tradition? this book pursues four themes: Place: Whose Nation, Whose City?; People: Whose Indigeneity?; Colonialism: Whose Architecture?; and Time: Whose Identity?
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface vii
The Editors and Contributors ix
Prologue
Whose Tradition?
Nezar AlSayyad
Part I: Place: Whose Nation, Whose City?
1 Tradition and Its Aftermath: Jakarta’s Urban Politics
Abidin Kusno
2 Tradition as an Imposed and Elite Inheritance: Yangon’s Modern
Past
Jayde Lin Roberts
3 Mega-Events, Socio-Spatial Fragmentation, and Extraterritoriality
in the City of Exception: The Case of Pre-Olympic Rio de
Janeiro
Anne-Marie Broudehoux
Part II: People: Whose Indigeneity?
4 Revamping Tradition: Contested Politics of ‘the Indigenous’ in
Postcolonial Hong Kong
Shu-Mei Huang
5 Their Voice or Mine? Debating People’s Agency in the
Construction of Adivasi Architectural Histories
Gauri Bharat
6 Malaysianization, Malayization, Islamization: The Politics of
Tradition in Greater Kuala Lumpur
Tim Bunnell
vi Whose Tradition?
Part III: Colonialism: Whose Architecture?
7 How the Past and the Future Have Influenced the Design of
Guam’s Government House
Marvin Brown
8 The Missing ‘Brazilianness’ of Nineteenth-Century Brazilian
Art and Architecture
Pedro Paulo Palazzo and Ana Amélia de Paula Moura
9 Empire in the City: Politicizing Urban Memorials of
Colonialism in Portugal and Mozambique
Tiago Castela
Part IV: Time: Whose Identity?
10 Whose Neighbourhood? Identity Politics, Community
Organizing, and Historic Preservation in St. Louis
Susanne Cowan
11 Cosmopolitan Architects and Discourses of Tradition and
Modernity in Post-Independence Africa
Jennifer Gaugler
12 New Traditions of Placemaking in West-Central Africa
Mark Gillem and Lyndsey Deaton
Reflections
13 The Agency of Belonging: Identifying and Inhabiting Tradition
Mike Robinson
14 Process and Polemic
Dell Upton
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Nezar AlSayyad, President of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments
, is Professor of Architecture, Planning, Urban Design and Urban History, at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Mark Gillem, Professor at the University of Oregon, USA teaches architecture and urban design through a joint appointment in the Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.
David Moffat is an architect and planner in Berkeley, California, USA. He is currently Managing Editor of
Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review.
Zusammenfassung
In seeking to answer the question Whose Tradition? this book pursues four themes: Place: Whose Nation, Whose City?; People: Whose Indigeneity?; Colonialism: Whose Architecture?; and Time: Whose Identity?
