The new Asian city : three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form

The Resource The new Asian city : three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form

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The new Asian city : three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form

Title remainder

three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form

Statement of responsibility

Jini Kim Watson

Language

eng

Summary

Under Jini Kim Watson's scrutiny, the Asian Tiger metropolises of Seoul, Taipei, and Singapore reveal a surprising residue of the colonial environment. Drawing on a wide array of literary, filmic, and political works, and juxtaposing close readings of the built environment, Watson demonstrates how processes of migration and construction in the hypergrowth urbanscapes of the Pacific Rim crystallize the psychic and political dramas of their colonized past and globalized present. Examining how newly constructed spaces-including expressways, high-rises, factory zones, department stores, and govern

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N$T

Dewey number

809/.933585009732

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PL493

LC item number

.W37 2011eb

Literary form

non fiction

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dictionaries
bibliography

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