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

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Main Author: Watson, Jini Kim, 1973-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the production of space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei
  • Part I. Colonial cities: imagining the colonial city; orphans of Asia: modernity and colonial literature; export production and the blank slate
  • Part II. Postwar urbanism: narratives of human growth versus urban renewal; the disappearing woman, interiority, and private space; roads, railways, and bridges: arteries of the nation
  • Part III. Industrializing landscapes: the way ahead: the politics and poetics of Singapore's developmental landscape; mobility and migration in Taiwanese new cinema; the redemptive realism of Korean Minjung literature
  • Conclusion. Too late, too soon: globalization and new Asian cities.