Table of Contents

Urbanism and Post-Colonial Nationalities: Theorizing the Southeast Asian City (R B H Goh & B S A Yeoh); Reading the Southeast Asian City in the Context of Rapid Economic Growth (K S Tay & R B H Goh); "The Rise of the Merlion": Monument and Myth in the Making of the Singapore Story (B S A Yeoh & T C Chang); Things to a Void: Utopian Discourse, Communality and Constructed Interstices in Singapore Public Housing (R B H Goh); Selective Disclosure: Romancing the Singapore River (S Huang & T C Chang); Malaysia's High-Tech Cities and the Construction of Intelligent Citizenship (T Bunnell); Museum/City/Nation: Negotiating Identities in Urban Museums in Indonesia and Singapore (K M Adams); The Urban and the Urbane: Modernization, Modernism and the Rebirth of Singaporean Cinema (A R Guneratne); Myths, Migration, Tradition, and City Space; Notes on the Hindu Festival Thaipusam as Observed in Singapore Today (D Bosco); Benjamin in Bombay? An Asian Extrapolation (R Patke).