Resistant City: Histories, Maps and the Architecture of Development

by Eunice Mei Feng Seng

This vivid book is an inquiry into the stagnation between the development of architectural practice and the progress in urban modernization. It is about islands as territories of resistance. It is about dense places where multitudes dwell in perennial contestations with the city on every front. It is about the histories, tactics and spaces of everyday survival within the hegemonic sway of global capital and unstoppable development. It is preoccupied...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811204616
• ISBN13: 9789811204616
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"