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Author Kozłowski, Marek (Urban designer), author.

Title Kuala Lumpur : community, infrastructure and urban inclusivity / Marek Kozłowski, Asma Mehan and Krzysztof Nawratek
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 128 pages)
Series Built environment city studies
Built environment city studies.
Contents Towards radical inclusivity : community, ummah and beyond -- From strategy to tactic -- National unity and urban segregation -- The spatial dynamics of Kuala Lumpur -- Urban and social infrastructure -- Spatial practices : dividing and connecting
Summary "Kuala Lumpur is a diverse city representing many different religions and nationalities. Recent government policy has actively promoted unity and cohesion throughout the city; and the country of Malaysia, with the implementation of a programme called 1Malaysia. In this book, the authors investigate the aims of this programme--predominantly to unify the Malaysian society--and how these objectives resonate in the daily spatial practices of the city's residents. This book argues that elements of urban infrastructure could work as an essential mediator 'beyond community', allowing inclusive social structures to be built, despite cultural and religious tensions existing within the city. It builds on the premise of an empirical study which explores the ways in which different communities use the same spaces, supported through the implementation of a theoretical framework which looks at both Western and Islamic conceptualisations of the notion of community. Through the analysis of Kuala Lumpur, this book contributes towards the creation of more inclusive places in multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious communities across the world"-- Provided by publisher
Notes "Routledge Focus"--Taken from front cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Marek Kozlowski is currently a Senior Lecturer and Master of Tropical Urban Design Program Coordinator at the Faculty of Design and Architecture, University Putra Malaysia. He has worked as an urban designer on several key projects in Australia, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Poland. He has conducted visiting lectures at universities in Australia, Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Thailand and Poland. He has written several publications in the field of urban design and planning including a book Urban Design: Shaping the Attractiveness of the Urban Environment with the End-Users. Asma Mehan is the current Postdoctoral research associate at CITTA (research center for territory, transports, and environment) at the University of Porto, Portugal. She is an editor at Architectural Histories, the open-access journal of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN) and active member of theAssociation of European Schools of Planning (AESOP). Krzysztof Nawratek is a Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Architecture at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is an author of City as a Political Idea (2011), Holes in the Whole. Introduction to urban revolutions (2012), Radical Inclusivity. Architecture and Urbanism (ed. 2015), Urban Re-Industrialisation (ed. 2017) and Total Urban Mobilisation. Ernst Junger and Postcapitalist City (2018)
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 08, 2020)
Subject Sociology, Urban -- Malaysia -- Kuala Lumpur
Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Malaysia -- Kuala Lumpur
City planning -- Malaysia -- Kuala Lumpur
Public spaces -- Malaysia -- Kuala Lumpur
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Policy.
City planning
Public spaces
Social conditions
Sociology, Urban
Urban ecology (Sociology)
SUBJECT Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) -- Social conditions
Subject Malaysia -- Kuala Lumpur
Form Electronic book
Author Mehan, Asma, author.
Nawratek, Krzysztof, 1970- author.
LC no. 2019047298
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