Acknowledgements List of Contributors 1. Perpetuating Cities: Excepting
globalization and the southeast Asian supplement Ryan Bishop, John Phillips
and Yeo Wei-Wei 2. Global Cities, Terror and Tourism: The ambivalent allure
of the urban jungle Kathleen Adams 3. The City as Target, or Perpetuation
and Death Ryan Bishop and Gregory K. Clancey 4. From the Hypermodern City
to the Gray Zone of Total Mobilization in the Philippines John Armitage and
Joanne Roberts 5. Urban Space in the French Imperial Past and the
Postcolonial Present Richard L. Derderian 6. Sharing Space in the Urban
Botanic Gardens of Singapore and Malaysia, 1786-2000 Emma Reisz 7. Gay
Capitals in Global City History: Cities, local markets and the origins of
Bangkok's same sex cultures Peter A. Jackson 8. Actually Existing
Postcolonialisms: Colonial urbanism and architecture after the postcolonial
turn Anthony D. King 9. Jakarta and the Zone of Fragmentation James Rosenau
and Diane Wildsmith 10. Regionalism, English Narrative and Singapore as
Home and Global City Shirley Geok-Lin Lim 11. Some Aspects of the Relations
Between Governance, Order and Decent, Secure Life in Contemporary Cities
with Colonial Pasts and Global Futures George E. Marcus and Angela Rivas
Gamboa 12. City as Theatre: Singapore, state of distraction Yeo Wei-Wei 13.
Perpetual Returns: Vampires and the ever-colonized city Steve Pile 14.
Benjamin's Arcades Project and the Postcolonial City Rajeev Patke 15. Deus
ex Machina: Evangelical sites, urbanism and the construction of social
identities Robbie B. H. Goh
