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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• O'Connor, Richard A

Titel

A Theory of Indigenous Southeast Asian Urbanism

Ort / Verlag

Singapore : ISEAS Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

[1983]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Modern Southeast Asian urban life follows cultural lines set out by the region's early Indic cities. In this indigenous urban tradition the city rules society through a division of power and elaboration of urban-centered status distinctions. Where earlier studies sought Western patterns in Southeast Asian cities, this is the first study to interpret the region's cities wholly within their own historical cultural continuities