New Asian city : Three dimensional fictions of space and urban form

By:

Watson, Jini Kim

Publication details: London University of Minnesota Press 2011Description: xi,311pISBN:

9780816675739

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DDC classification:

307.76 WAT

Contents:

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

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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

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