Postcolonial Urbanism

Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes

By: Ryan Bishop (Editor), John Phillips (Editor), Wei Wei Yeo (Editor)

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Paperback | 14 March 2003 | Edition Number 1

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A common assumption about cities throughout the world is that they are essentially an elaboration of the Euro-American model. Postcolonial Urbanism demonstrates the narrowness of this vision. The book shows that cities in the postcolonial world are producing novel forms of urbanism not reducible to Western models. Despite being heavily colonized in the past, southeast Asia has been largely ignored in discussions about postcolonial theory in general considerations of global urbanism. An international cast of contributors focuses on the heavily urbanized world region of southeast Asia to investigate the novel forms of urbanism germinating in postcolonial settings such as Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Hanoi and the Philippines. Offering a mix of theoretical perspectives and empirical accounts, Postcolonial Urbanism presents a panoramic view of the cultures, societies and politics of the postcolonial city. John Armitage, <University of Northumbria, UK>, Ryan Bishop, <National University of Singapore>, Gregory K Clancey, <National University of Singapore>, Richard L Derderian, <National University of Si

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"Featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education's New Scholarly Books section, May 2, 2003." -- Journal of Economic Literature
"[T]his book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Southeast Asian cities. Planning educators and researchers will do well with understanding, challenging and integrating perpectives provided by writers from other disciplines such as authors of this book." -- Journal of Planing Education & Research,Bhishna Bajracharya
"This is a sophisticated and cosmopolitian book." -- Pacific Affairs, 76: 1, Abidin Kusno

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