Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia

by Richard Baxstrom

Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia is about the transformation of urban space and the reordering of the demographic character of Brickfields, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Kuala Lumpur. Baxstrom offers an ethnographic account of the complex attempts on the part of the state and the community to reconcile techno-rational conceptions of law, development, and city planning with local experiences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804758913
• ISBN13: 9780804758918
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"