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Author:   Nezar AlSayyad ,  Mark Gillem ,  David Moffat
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9780367140960

ISBN 10:   0367140969
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   17 January 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Preface vii The Editors and Contributors ix Prologue Whose Tradition? Nezar AlSayyad Part I: Place: Whose Nation, Whose City? 1 Tradition and Its Aftermath: Jakarta’s Urban Politics Abidin Kusno 2 Tradition as an Imposed and Elite Inheritance: Yangon’s Modern Past Jayde Lin Roberts 3 Mega-Events, Socio-Spatial Fragmentation, and Extraterritoriality in the City of Exception: The Case of Pre-Olympic Rio de Janeiro Anne-Marie Broudehoux Part II: People: Whose Indigeneity? 4 Revamping Tradition: Contested Politics of ‘the Indigenous’ in Postcolonial Hong Kong Shu-Mei Huang 5 Their Voice or Mine? Debating People’s Agency in the Construction of Adivasi Architectural Histories Gauri Bharat 6 Malaysianization, Malayization, Islamization: The Politics of Tradition in Greater Kuala Lumpur Tim Bunnell vi Whose Tradition? Part III: Colonialism: Whose Architecture? 7 How the Past and the Future Have Influenced the Design of Guam’s Government House Marvin Brown 8 The Missing ‘Brazilianness’ of Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Art and Architecture Pedro Paulo Palazzo and Ana Amélia de Paula Moura 9 Empire in the City: Politicizing Urban Memorials of Colonialism in Portugal and Mozambique Tiago Castela Part IV: Time: Whose Identity? 10 Whose Neighbourhood? Identity Politics, Community Organizing, and Historic Preservation in St. Louis Susanne Cowan 11 Cosmopolitan Architects and Discourses of Tradition and Modernity in Post-Independence Africa Jennifer Gaugler 12 New Traditions of Placemaking in West-Central Africa Mark Gillem and Lyndsey Deaton Reflections 13 The Agency of Belonging: Identifying and Inhabiting Tradition Mike Robinson 14 Process and Polemic Dell Upton

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Nezar AlSayyad, President of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, is Professor of Architecture, Planning, Urban Design and Urban History, at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Mark Gillem, Professor at the University of Oregon, USA teaches architecture and urban design through a joint appointment in the Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. David Moffat is an architect and planner in Berkeley, California, USA. He is currently Managing Editor of Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review.

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