New Asian city : Three dimensional fictions of space and urban form
Watson, Jini Kim
New Asian city : Three dimensional fictions of space and urban form - London University of Minnesota Press 2011 - xi,311p.
CONTENTS
Note on Romanization xi
Introduction: the production of space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei 1
Part I. Colonial cities 27
1.Imagining the colonial city 27
2. orphans of Asia: modernity and colonial literature 53
Transition : Export production and the blank slate 87
Part II. Postwar urbanism
3. Narratives of human growth versus urban renewal 99
4. The disappearing woman, interiority, and private space 133
Transition roads, railways, and bridges: arteries of the nation 167
Part III. Industrializing landscapes
5. The way ahead: the politics and poetics of Singapore's developmental landscape 179
6. Mobility and migration in Taiwanese new cinema 203
7. The redemptive realism of Korean Minjung literature 227
Conclusion. Too late, too soon: globalization and new Asian cities 251
Acknowledgements 257
Notes 259
Bibliography 277
Index 293
9780816675739
307.76 / WAT
New Asian city : Three dimensional fictions of space and urban form - London University of Minnesota Press 2011 - xi,311p.
CONTENTS
Note on Romanization xi
Introduction: the production of space in Singapore, Seoul, and Taipei 1
Part I. Colonial cities 27
1.Imagining the colonial city 27
2. orphans of Asia: modernity and colonial literature 53
Transition : Export production and the blank slate 87
Part II. Postwar urbanism
3. Narratives of human growth versus urban renewal 99
4. The disappearing woman, interiority, and private space 133
Transition roads, railways, and bridges: arteries of the nation 167
Part III. Industrializing landscapes
5. The way ahead: the politics and poetics of Singapore's developmental landscape 179
6. Mobility and migration in Taiwanese new cinema 203
7. The redemptive realism of Korean Minjung literature 227
Conclusion. Too late, too soon: globalization and new Asian cities 251
Acknowledgements 257
Notes 259
Bibliography 277
Index 293
9780816675739
307.76 / WAT