In Behind the Postcolonial Abidin Kusno shows how colonial representations have been revived and rearticulated in postcolonial Indonesia. The book shows how architecture and …
… In the next section of this introduction, we present the politics behind this consensus in … retrofits to existing concrete towers, but also to re-engineer entire tower neighbourhoods. This has …
… the technological driving force behind tall building developments… radically with Asia now having the largest share with 32%, … buildings are now in Asia and only two, the Sears Tower and …
… as our tower may have been, with these and other towers … cast long shadows on the neighboring streets and parks. The … I will show the behindthe-scenes design and engineering …
… Because the overbuilding of the mid 1980s has abated, we can look at the forms that are left behind, judging their aesthetics and uses with more critical detachment. At the same time …
A widespread mania for being or becoming a “world city” dominates urban politics today … towards the end of building a class alliance behind the banner of neoliberalism and free trade. …
… so that the rest of the country could share in our bounty.” With the failure of those Army Corps of Engineers– built levees, the editorial argued that “Now it’s time for a nation to return the …
Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai’s history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel descriptions, novels …