CONTENTS List of figures and sources viii Preface and acknowledgements x Part I: Ideas 1 1 Making Sense of Place: Introduction 3 2 Place as Assemblage 13 3 Silent Complicities: Bourdieu, Habitus, Field 31 4 Limits of Critical Architecture: 'I Mean to be Critical, But..' 43 Part II: Places 55 5 Slippery Characters: Defending and Creating Place Identities 57 WITH IAN WOODCOCK AND STEPHEN WOOD 6 Becoming Prosperous: Informal Urbanism in Yogyakarta 79 WITH WIRYONO RAHARJO 7 Urbanizing Architecture: Rem Koolhaas and Spatial Segmentarity 103 8 Open Court: Transparency and Legitimation in the Courthouse 125 9 Safety Becomes Danger: Drug Use in Public Space 139 WITH JOHN FITZGERALD 10 New Orders: Monas and Merdeka Square 153 WITH EKA PERMANASARI 11 Urban Slippage: Smooth and Striated Streetscapes in Bangkok 167 WITH KASAMA POLAKIT Notes 185 Bibliography 189 Index 197