Overview
Offers a useful and original contribution to the postcolonial architectural discourse in Southeast Asia
Generates the debate and discourse on the dialectics of national identity and national identity vs regionalism
Examines different building typologies, including religious, government, institutional, and cultural transport
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
Keywords
- GARDENS AND ECOLOGY AS IDENTITY in Malaysia
- Urban Trends in Malaysia
- Urban Design
- ARCHITECTURAL IDENTITY
- Architectural Regionalism
- The Modern mosque architecture
- Regionalism within Modenernism
- CULTURAL LANDMARKS
- MUSEUMS AS NATIONAL SYMBOLS
- MODERNISM IN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TERMINAL FORMS
- “SUPERBLOCK”
- Facadism,
- urbanizing Malay vernacular
- THE TROPICAL METROPOLIS
- idealisations in a post colonial city
- Development of the Kuala Lumpur City Centre
- reconceptualizing the sustainable city
- urban geography and urbanism
About this book
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 practical outcomes of creating public architecture that effectively responds to traditions, nationhood and modernity.
The authors compile and analyse prevailing ideas and strategies, present case studies in architectural language and form, and introduce the reader to tensions arising between a nationalist agenda and local ‘regionalist’ architectural language. These dichotomies represent the very nature of multicultural societies and issues with identity; a challenge that various nations across the globe face in a changing environment.
This topical and pertinent volume will appeal to students and scholars of urban planning, architecture and the modern city.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Shireen Jahnkassim is both an academic and practitioner of architecture, and is currently Associate Professor at the International Islamic University, Malaysia.
Norwina Nawawi is Associate Professor at the International Islamic University, Malaysia.
Mansor Ibrahim is Professor of Urban Regional Planning, IIUM
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modernity, Nation and Urban-Architectural Form
Book Subtitle: The Dynamics and Dialectics of National Identity vs Regionalism in a Tropical City
Editors: Shireen Jahn Kassim, Norwina Mohd Nawawi, Mansor Ibrahim
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66131-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66130-8Published: 06 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09759-2Published: 15 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66131-5Published: 20 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 264
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Studies/Sociology, Asian Culture, Cities, Countries, Regions