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The geopolitics of spectacle : space, synecdoche, and the new capitals of Asia / Natalie Koch.
LIBRA HT178.A78 K63 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Koch, Natalie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban renewal--Political aspects--Asia.
- Urban renewal.
- City planning--Political aspects--Asia.
- City planning.
- New towns--Political aspects--Asia.
- New towns.
- Spectacular, The--Political aspects--Asia.
- Spectacular, The.
- Capitals (Cities)--Asia.
- Capitals (Cities).
- City planning--Political aspects.
- Urban renewal--Political aspects.
- Asia.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 194 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "Develops a geographic approach to the politics of spectacle and its unspectacular Others through examining recent spectacular capital city development projects in seven authoritarian, resource-rich states of Central Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, and East Asia"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : spectacular urbanism and the new capitals of Asia
- Approaching spectacle geographically
- From Almaty to Astana : capitalizing the territory in Kazakhstan
- From Astana to Aral : making inequality enchant in Kazakhstan's hinterlands
- From Astana to Asia : spectacular cities and the new capitals of Asia compared
- Conclusion : synecdoche and the geopolitics of spectacular urbanism in Asia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Koch, Natalie. Geopolitics of spectacle.
- ISBN:
- 9781501720918
- 1501720910
- OCLC:
- 1008760652
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