Research Catalog

Title

Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya : negotiating urban space in Malaysia / Ross King.

Author

King, Ross.

Publication

Honolulu : Asian Studies Association of Australia in association with University of Hawaii Press, 2008.

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Details

Description

xxviii, 321 pages : bill.; 23 cm

Summary

"The 'purity' of Putrajaya throws the cosmopolitan diversity of Kuala Lumpur into sharp relief, and the tension between the two places reflects the rifts that run through Malaysian society. In this copiously illustrated book, Ross King considers what form of metropolis the Kuala Lumpur Putrajaya region might foreshadow, arguing that signs of this future city are to be sought in the collision points between the utopian dreams of imagined futures and the reality of purposely forgotten pasts." "Drawing on postcolonial studies, media studies and critical social theory, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya makes a significant contribution to architecture, urban planning, urban design, as well as Malaysian politics and society."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Putrajaya (Malaysia) > Social conditions
• Cities and towns > Malaysia > Putrajaya
• Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) > Social conditions
• Cities and towns > Malaysia > Kuala Lumpur

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-299) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. The phenomenal city : diversities of spaces -- Ch. 2. The contested city : race and the social production of space -- Ch. 3. The imagined city : Putrajaya, Cyberjaya and the multimedia super corridor -- Ch. 4. The forgotten city : spatial representations and their absences -- Ch. 5. The metamorphic city : in the interstices of the hyperspace, cyberspace and the Malay world -- Afterword. Widening divide or conciliatory space.

ISBN

• 9780824833183 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 082483318X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2008009632
• 99933685357

OCLC

• 213599076
• ocn213599076
• SCSB-5469764

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries