The Boat and the City: Chinese Diaspora and the Architecture of Southeast Asian Coastal Cities - Tapa blanda

Offering a coherent and comprehensive approach to the urban history, morphology, and architecture of Southeast Asian cities, Widodo (architecture, National U. of Singapore) looks at the interweaving process of the different groups and events from the formation of cities to their development in the recent past. After a review of urban morphology in the region, he traces changes through the maritime trade from the first to the 16th centuries, the entrepots in the 15th and 16th centuries, the great emporiums in the 16th and 17th centuries, and the colonial cities from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Johannes Widodo is currently a Senior Fellow in the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore.