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Introduction
Sadouni offers a much-needed description of the methodology and conceptual framework for the study of Somalis’ migrant experiences in Johannesburg....
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Changing Attitudes of Bei**gness to Westernized Place Names in Bei**g: From the Semi-Colonial Period to Postmodern Twenty-First Century
One of the goals of China’s place name governance, which started in 2015, is to remove westernized place names. This study investigates what...
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Urban Syncretism: Conscious and Unconscious Architectural Formation of National Identity
There is another strategy of identity, called ‘syncretisation’ or syncretism. It is a form of hybrid fusion, in which two or more different stylistic...
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Conclusions
Urban-architectural form, and its language and vocabulary, has a powerful effect in infusing one’s memory with certain shapes and markers that...
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Contracting the Future
The chapter explores yet another Islamic micro-finance experiment. In focus is a multidimensional set of indeterminate relations articulated amongst...
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The Regional and National Agenda in Urban-Architectural Identity through Conflicts and Conflations
This chapter reviews past themes and definitions and creates a framework around which the discussion and structure of the book is based. Several...
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Between Criticality and Pastiche: The Putrajaya Boulevard
The urban-architectural forms of Malaysia and its tropical urban city is perhaps a reflection of the complex realities of the nation and the...
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Locating Women’s Mosques
To examine the concept of a mosque in more detail, Fewkes asks a series of questions in this chapter about how we define these spaces. Defining...
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Bracketing Before Framing: The Grounding of Colony Architecture
This chapter highlights the inescapable postcolonial factors in analyses of contemporary Asia, which is schematised by the author as the proposition...
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The Context of Indian Ocean Spatiality
The village of Johannesburg was founded in 1886 and its growth and development into a city need to be understood in terms of its location at the...
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Language and Social Space in Nelson Mandela Bay
This chapter explores the relationship between language and social space in the city of Nelson Mandela Bay. Established in 2000, Nelson Mandela Bay...
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Exhibitions Without Exhibits: Musealising History and Architecture
This chapter synthesises the subtle reciprocal relationship between space and time that plays a key role in contemporary Asia’s architectural gesture...
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Wikipedia: Mirror, Microcosm, and Motor of Global Linguistic Diversity
Wikipedia has long presented itself as “the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet.” This chapter examines Wikipedia as a...
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The Mosque in a Multicultural Context: Modernity, Hybridity and Eclecticism
This chapter begins by reviewing the evolution of the mosque vocabulary by focusing on state and nationally-sponsored mosques. The trajectory of the...
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Tropical Urbanism: Greenery and Walkways in Mediating Identities
This chapter focuses on the role of shaded walkways and greenery in defining what is meant by tropicality. Theories of ideas concerning tropicality...
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The Politics of Development in Bali
Bali is a changing world. In contrast to the romantic imaginary as a peace and harmony-loving society, throughout the history, Bali has been shaped...
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Criticality, Symbolic Capital and the High-Rise Form
This chapter uses the framework of the commercial office high-rise building to chart the evolution of regionalist and national ideas in forming an...
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Public Buildings of Early Independence: Conflations of Regionalism and National Identity
The chapter discusses key buildings of the early years of Independence, which had embraced the language of the International style, but embodied...
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Telling Southern Minority Nationalities to the Public
This chapter examines the role of nationality/ethnology museums as a form of knowledge dissemination, artifact collection/exhibition, and academic...
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The Transport Terminal: Marking National Landmarks
This chapter focuses on the role of transport hubs, namely central train stations and international airport terminals, in terms of form to create...