Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text: Urban Landscapes, Cultural Documents, and Interpretative Experiences

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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• Assisted by: Robbie B H Goh (Editor), Robbie B. H. Goh (Editor), Brenda S A Yeoh (Editor), Brenda S. A. Yeoh (Editor)
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.05.2003
• EAN: 9789812382832
• ISBN: 978-981-238-283-2
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 230 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics