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020			_a9781409445975 (hbk)
040			_bEnglish _erda _cMSU
041			_aeng
050	0	0	_aNA2543.N38 LOO
100	1		_aLoo, Yat Ming. _eAuthor _eUniversity College London, U.K.
245	1	0	_aArchitecture and urban form in Kuala Lumpur : _brace and Chinese spaces in a postcolonial city _ccreated by Yat Ming Loo
260			_aSurrey _bAshgate Publishing _c2013
300			_a221 pages _billustrations _c26 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia _bn
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier _bnc
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aChapter 1 Introduction, 2 - The racialised landscapes of nation - race relations and spatial segregation, 3 - Colonial identification and Kuala Lumpur, 4 - Duplicating colonial identification - KLCC and Putrajaya, 5 - The making of 'Chinatown', 6 - Landscape of the non-descript - Kuala Lumpur Chinese Cemetery, 7 - Conclusion.
520			_aKuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, is a former colony of the British Empire which today prides itself in being a multicultural society par excellence. However, the Islamisation of the urban landscape, which is at the core of Malaysia’s decolonisation projects, has marginalised the Chinese urban spaces which were once at the heart of Kuala Lumpur. Engaging with complex colonial and postcolonial aspects of the city, from the British colonial era in the 1880s to the modernisation period in the 1990s, this book demonstrates how Kuala Lumpur’s urban landscape is overwritten by a racial agenda through the promotion of Malaysian Architecture, including the world-famous mega-projects of the Petronas Twin Towers and the new administrative capital of Putrajaya. Drawing on a wide range of Chinese community archives, interviews and resources, the book illustrates how Kuala Lumpur’s Chinese spaces have been subjugated. This includes original case studies showing how the Chinese re-appropriated the Kuala Lumpur old city centre of Chinatown and Chinese cemeteries as a way of contesting state’s hegemonic national identity and ideology. This book is arguably the first academic book to examine the relationship of Malaysia’s large Chinese minority with the politics of architecture and urbanism in Kuala Lumpur. It is also one of the few academic books to situate the Chinese diaspora spaces at the centre of the construction of city and nation. By including the spatial contestation of those from the margins and their resistance against the state ideology, this book proposes a recuperative urban and architectural history, seeking to revalidate the marginalised spaces of minority community and re-script them into the narrative of the postcolonial nation-state.
650		0	_aNationalism and architecture _zMalaysia _zKuala Lumpur
650		0	_aIdentity (Psychology) in architecture _zMalaysia _zKuala Lumpur
650		0	_aSpace (Architecture) _zMalaysia _zKuala Lumpur
650		0	_aChinese _zMalaysia _zKuala Lumpur
651		0	_aKuala Lumpur (Malaysia) _xEthnic relations
651		0	_aKuala Lumpur (Malaysia) _xBuildings, structures, etc.
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