Theorizing the Southeast Asian city as text : urban landscapes, cultural documents, and interpretative experiences / Robbie B.H. Goh, Brenda S.A. Yeoh.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

International Conference on the City as Text, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Goh, Robbie B. H., 1964-

Yeoh, Brenda S. A.

Conference Name:

International Conference on the City as Text (1999 : Singapore)

International Conference on the City as Text

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Southeast Asia--Congresses.

Cities and towns.

City and town life--Southeast Asia--Congresses.

City and town life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Urbanism and Post-Colonial Nationalities: Theorizing the Southeast Asian City; References; Chapter 1 Reading the Southeast Asian City in the Context of Rapid Economic Growth; References; Chapter 2 ""The Rise of the Merlion"": Monument and Myth in the Making of the Singapore Story; Introduction; Lion with the Fishy Tale: The Merlion Story; The Merlion as a Tourism Icon; The Merlion as National Icon?; Future Myth?; References; Chapter 3 Things to a Void: Utopian Discourse, Communality and Constructed Interstices in Singapore Public Housing

IntroductionThe Empire of Voids - Communality/Surveillance, Difference/Sameness; Void Encounters - Reading/Positioning without Purpose; The Political Economy of the Void: Ambivalence, Dislocation, and Utopian Discourse; Afterword: Postmodernisms, Global Cityscapes, Appropriations, and Insertions; References; Chapter 4 Selective Disclosure: Romancing the Singapore River; Introduction; Landscape as Palimpest; The Singapore River Story; Romancing the Singapore River; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5 Malaysia's High-Tech Cities and the Construction of Intelligent Citizenship; Introduction

Cities and National CitizenshipThe Text and National Government; The Intelligent City and the National Construction of Information Society and Economy; Textual Cities and Intelligent Citizens; 1. Learning and technological upgrading; 2. Appropriate social constructions of new technology; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6 Museum/City/Nation: Negotiating Identities in Urban Museums in Indonesia and Singapore; Introduction: Museums as ""Cathedrals of Urban Modernity""; Gazes of the Nation: The Central Museum in Jakarta; The Context: Background on Indonesia's Museums

The Nusa Tenggara Timur Provincial Museum in KupangThe Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore: A Partial, Unfinished Text; Reflections; References; Chapter 7 The Urban and the Urbane: Modernization, Modernism and the Rebirth of Singaporean Cinema; References; Chapter 8 Benjamin in Bombay? An Asian Extrapolation; The Profane Aura of the City; The City as Rune; The City as Trace; The City as Kitsch; The City as Labyrinth; A Poetics of Shock; The Surreal City; The City of Violence; References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-281-93382-1

9786611933821

981-279-128-0