Modernity, Nation and Urban-Architectural Form The Dynamics and Dialectics of National Identity vs Regionalism in a Tropical City /

This book explores how Malaysia, as a multicultural modern nation, has approached issues of nationalism and regionalism in terms of physical expression of the built environment. Ever since the nation's post-Colonial era, architects and policy makers have grappled with the theoretical and practi...

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Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Témata:
Human geography.
Urban geography.
Sociology, Urban.
Ethnology-Asia.
Architecture.
ISBN:9783319661315
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  • Chapter 1 Definitions
  • Chapter 2 The Mosque in a Multicultural Context - Modernity, Hybridity and Eclectism
  • Chapter 3 Public Buildings of Early Independence - Conflations of Regionalism and National Identity
  • Chapter 4 Monumentalising the Vernacular - Criticality, Kitsch and Identity of the City; With Noorhanita Abdul Majid
  • Chapter 5 Regionalism in University Buildings - Tectonics, Form And Criticality
  • Chapter 6 Tropical Urbanism - Greenery and Walkways in Mediating Identities; With Norzalina Harun and Alias Abdullah
  • Chapter 7 Between Criticality and Pastiche - The Putrajaya Boulevard
  • Chapter 8 Criticality, Symbolic Capital and the Highrise Form
  • Chapter 9 The Transport Terminal - Marking National Landmarks
  • Chapter 10 The Tropical Metropolis - A Review Of History, Identity and Climatic Idealisations in City Form; Nurul Syala Abdul Latip and Shaiful Nadzri Samsuddin
  • Chapter 11 Syncretism in Urban- Architectural Form - The Conscious and Unconscious Formation of National Identity
  • Chapter 12 Conclusions. .

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