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Title:
The new Asian city : three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form
Author:
Watson, Jini Kim, 1973-
ISBN:
9780816678792
Publication Information:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 311 pages) : illustrations
Abstract:
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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