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Author Askew, Marc

Title Bangkok : place practice and representation / Marc Askew
Published London : Routledge, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 358 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Asia's global cities
Asia's global cities.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Cosmology, accumulation and the state: the urbanism; 2 The transformation of Krung Thep; 3 The 1990s a global city in a global age; 4 Banglamphu change and persistence in the yan; 5 Genealogy of the slum pragmatism politics and locality; 6 A place in the suburbs: making a neighbourhood in the middle class housing estate; 7 Fields of cultural capital: land, livelihood and landscape transformation on the rural urban fringe; 8 Condo land global forms and local ecologies
Summary An in-depth study of the city's many facets, with insights from cultural history, urban studies and human Geography - a powerful account of the real Bangkok. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in urban studies or Asian studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Cities and towns -- Thailand -- Bangkok
Urbanization -- Thailand -- Bangkok
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Cities and towns
Social conditions
Urbanization
Stadtgeografie
Stadtsoziologie
SUBJECT Bangkok (Thailand) -- Social conditions
Subject Thailand -- Bangkok
Bangkok
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002069900
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