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Paperback. "Bangkok: Angelic Allusions" uses the tangible artefacts of the city, its topography, streets and monuments, as vehicles for speculating on Bangkok and its central mythologies. Num Pages: 244 pages, 100 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMT; AJC; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 248 x 190 x 13. Weight in Grams: 592.
Cities today, especially those undergoing rapid growth and transformation, seem to defy traditional principles of urbanism and urban analysis. Bangkok, the City of Angels, the capital of Thailand, and an international metaphor of development gone wrong, presents an extreme version of this condition. Indeed, Bangkok, a barely stable setting for its (approximately) 12 million inhabitants, challenges our perceptions of what a city is, or should be. Yet in spite of its chaotic state Bangkok also presents moments of arresting beauty and social intensity. These fragments suggest a potential other city, resting latent within the cacophonous distractions of daily life. The ... Read more
Cities today, especially those undergoing rapid growth and transformation, seem to defy traditional principles of urbanism and urban analysis. Bangkok, the City of Angels, the capital of Thailand, and an international metaphor of development gone wrong, presents an extreme version of this condition. Indeed, Bangkok, a barely stable setting for its (approximately) 12 million inhabitants, challenges our perceptions of what a city is, or should be. Yet in spite of its chaotic state Bangkok also presents moments of arresting beauty and social intensity. These fragments suggest a potential other city, resting latent within the cacophonous distractions of daily life. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861891570
SKU
V9781861891570
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
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