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Title Cars, conduits, and kampongs : the modernization of the Indonesian city, 1920-1960 / edited by Freek Colombijn, Joost Cote.

Publication Info. Leiden : BRILL, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (365 pages).
Series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 295
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 295.
Note Print version record.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Modernization of the Indonesian city, 1920-1960 -- pt. 1: State impositions and passive acceptance -- 2. Call for doctors!: uneven medical provision and the modernization of state health care during the decolonization of Indonesia, 1930s-1950s -- 3. (Post)colonial pipes: urban water supply in colonial and contemporary Jakarta -- 4. Netherlands Indies town planning: an agent of modernization (1905-1957) -- pt. 2: Partial accommodation -- 5. Rückert and Hoesni Thamrin: bureaucrat and politician in colonial Kampong improvement -- 6. Kotabaru and the housing estate as Bulwark against the indigenization of colonial Java -- 7. Public housing in Semarang and the modernization of Kampongs, 1930-1960 -- 8.From autonomous village to 'informal slum': Kampong development and state control in Bandung (1930-1960) -- 9. Breaking the boundaries: the Uniekampong and modernization of dock labour in Tanjung Priok, Batavia (1917-1949) -- pt. 3: Selective appropriation -- 10. Moving at a different velocity: the modernization of transportation and social differentiation in Surabaya in the 1920s -- 11. The two alun-alun of Malang (1930-1960) -- 12. The indonesianization of the symbols of modernity in Plaju (Palembang), 1930s-1960s -- 13. Chinese cemeteries as a symbol of sacred space: control, conflict, and negotiation in Surabaya.
Summary Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of Indonesian cities between 1920 and 1960. In examining the multiple responses to innovations introduced by Western colonialism, the contributors demonstrate how modernization, urbanization, and decolonization were intrinsically linked. A full text Open Access version will also become available.
Subject Cities and towns -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century.
Decolonization -- Indonesia.
Urbanization -- Indonesia.
Nationalism -- Indonesia -- History -- 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
Cities and towns. (OCoLC)fst00861748
Decolonization. (OCoLC)fst00889115
Nationalism. (OCoLC)fst01033832
Urbanization. (OCoLC)fst01162722
Indonesia. (OCoLC)fst01209242
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Colombijn, Freek, 1961-
Coté, Joost.
Container of (work): Colombijn, Freek, 1961- Modernization of the Indonesian city, 1920-1960.
Other Form: Print version: Colombijn, Freek. Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs : The Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920-1960. Leiden : BRILL, ©2014 9789004280694
ISBN 9789004280724 (electronic bk.)
9004280723 (electronic bk.)
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