Whose Tradition?

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

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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 Amelia 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