ISBN:
9788776940461
,
9789971694159
Language:
English
Pages:
XXVIII, 321 S.
,
Ill., Ktn.
,
23 cm
Series Statement:
Asian Studies Association of Australia Southeast Asia publications series
Series Statement:
ASAA Southeast Asia publications series
Parallel Title:
Online version Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya
DDC:
307.7609595/1
Keywords:
City planning
;
City planning
;
Urban policy
;
Urban policy
;
Cities and towns
;
Cities and towns
;
Putrajaya (Malaysia) Social conditions
;
Kuala Lumpur
;
Putrajaya
;
Soziale Situation
Abstract:
"Arguably Southeast Asia's most spectacular city, Kuala Lumpur--widely known as KL--has just celebrated fifty years as the national capital of Malaysia. But KL now has a very different twin in Putrajaya, the country's new administrative capital. Where KL is a diverse, cosmopolitan, multiracial metropolis, Putrajaya fulfills an elitest vision of a Malay-Muslim utopia. KL's multicultural richness is reflected in the brilliance and diversity of its architecture and urban spaces; Putrajaya, by contrast, is an architectural homage to an imagined Middle East. 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, and Malaysian politics and society."--Book cover
Description / Table of Contents:
The phenomenal city : diversities of spaces -- The contested city : race and the social production of space -- The imagined city : Putrajaya, Cyberjaya and the multimedia super corridor -- The forgotten city : spatial representations and their absences -- The metamorphic city : in the interstices of the hyperspace, cyberspace and the Malay world -- Afterword : the widening divide or conciliatory space.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-299) and index
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