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The new Asian city : three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form
- Title
- The new Asian city : three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form / Jini Kim Watson.
- Author
- Watson, Jini Kim.
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 311 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 12-447
- ISBN
- 9780816675722 (hc : alk. paper)
- 0816675724 (hc : alk. paper)
- 9780816675739 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0816675732 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011003818
- OCLC
- YBP 2011003818
- Author
- Watson, Jini Kim.
- Title
- The new Asian city : three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form / Jini Kim Watson.
- Imprint
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 12-447