Whose Tradition?

Nezar AlSayyad, President of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, is Professor of Architecture, Planning, Urban Design and Urban History, at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Mark Gillem, Professor at the University of Oregon, USA teaches architecture and urban design through a joint appointment in the Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. David Moffat is an architect and planner in Berkeley, California, USA. He is currently Managing Editor of Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review.

Preface vii

The Editors and Contributors ix

Prologue

Whose Tradition?

Nezar AlSayyad

Part I: Place: Whose Nation, Whose City?

1 Tradition and Its Aftermath: Jakarta’s Urban Politics

Abidin Kusno

2 Tradition as an Imposed and Elite Inheritance: Yangon’s Modern

Past

Jayde Lin Roberts

3 Mega-Events, Socio-Spatial Fragmentation, and Extraterritoriality

in the City of Exception: The Case of Pre-Olympic Rio de

Janeiro

Anne-Marie Broudehoux

Part II: People: Whose Indigeneity?

4 Revamping Tradition: Contested Politics of ‘the Indigenous’ in

Postcolonial Hong Kong

Shu-Mei Huang

5 Their Voice or Mine? Debating People’s Agency in the

Construction of Adivasi Architectural Histories

Gauri Bharat

6 Malaysianization, Malayization, Islamization: The Politics of

Tradition in Greater Kuala Lumpur

Tim Bunnell

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Part III: Colonialism: Whose Architecture?

7 How the Past and the Future Have Influenced the Design of

Guam’s Government House

Marvin Brown

8 The Missing ‘Brazilianness’ of Nineteenth-Century Brazilian

Art and Architecture

Pedro Paulo Palazzo and Ana Amélia de Paula Moura

9 Empire in the City: Politicizing Urban Memorials of

Colonialism in Portugal and Mozambique

Tiago Castela

Part IV: Time: Whose Identity?

10 Whose Neighbourhood? Identity Politics, Community

Organizing, and Historic Preservation in St. Louis

Susanne Cowan

11 Cosmopolitan Architects and Discourses of Tradition and

Modernity in Post-Independence Africa

Jennifer Gaugler

12 New Traditions of Placemaking in West-Central Africa

Mark Gillem and Lyndsey Deaton

Reflections

13 The Agency of Belonging: Identifying and Inhabiting Tradition

Mike Robinson

14 Process and Polemic

Dell Upton