1st Edition

Urban-Architectural Forms of Historic Southeast Asia The Littoral Cities

448 Pages 147 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

448 Pages 147 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Historic littoral cities and sites of Southeast Asia that grew along the coast, seascapes, and the confluence of rivers as evolvements from Indigenous settlements linked the dynamism of trade and confluence of cultures, have defied categorization and characterization. For the first time, Jahn Kassim and Ibrahim characterize a series of sites whose historic urban-architectural core forms reflect a... Read more

1 Introduction, The Continuum of the South East Asian Littoral Realm:  Transcending Decimation and Diversity Shireen Jahn Kassim , Illyani Ibrahim 2. The Layering of Historic Urban Patterns of the Littoral: Colonization as Degree of Spatial Rupture Illyani Ibrahim, Shireen Jahn Kassim, Alias Abdullah  PART 1 3 Cirebon:  A Residual Of   The ‘Cosmic’Agung Zainal Muttakin Raden and Nurhaya Baniyamin 4 Old Banten: Legacy of The Cosmopolitan, Shireen Jahn Kassim and Ratu Arum Kusumawardhani  5 Aceh:  Conceptualising the Sacred in the Terra Firma of the East, Shireen Jahn Kassim, Illyani Ibrahim 6 Melaka: Meeting of the Monsoons, Illyani Ibrahim, Shireen Jahn Kassim, Alias Abdullah 7 Pattani: A Transpenisular ‘Sand and Sea’ Entrepot, Tengku Anis Qarihah Abdul Kadir and Mohd Jaki Bin Mamat 8 Pontianak City: Stability and Confluence, Norwina Mohd Nawawi 9 Alor Setar – Splitting the City, Shireen Jahn Kassim, Mansor Ibrahim, Abu Dzar Samsuddin 10 Kuala Terengganu And Makassar: Converging the Ecological Legacy of Littoral Urban Form, Shireen Jahn Kassim, Nor Zalina Harun, Nurul Syala Abdul Latip, and Syahidah Amni PART 2 11 The Langkat-Aru-Medan Continuum – A Rhizomatic Region Of The Straits, Shireen Jahn Kassim, Tengku Anis Qarihah, Raja Abdul Kadir and Isham Shah Hasan 12 Jugra –A Hybrid Inland-Littoral Legacy of The Straits, Nurhaya Baniyamin, Mazarina Zain 13 Roots and Ruptures: Navigating Cultural Continuity and Transformation in the Riau Lingaa Singapore Continuum, Khairusy Syakirin Has-Yun Hashim and Shireen Jahn Kassim PART 3 14 Yangon: The Sacred and The State, Shamzani Affendy Mohd Din and Illyani Ibrahim 15 Semarang: Tropical Appropriations of Littoral Legacies, Mutiawati Mandaka and Samayro Saif 16 Saigon: Fort in the City, Nyugen Tri Mahn and Le Chi Quinchi  17 Historic Intramuros, Manila: Reclaiming Indigenous Urbanism within a Colonial Frame, Raj Busmente PART 4 18 Champa: A Continuum between Mountain and the Sea, Do Truong Giang and Shireen Jahn Kassim 19 Srivijaya: Conjoining the Sacred and the Seaboard, Shireen Jahn Kassim, Madzwin Ansari  20 The Bujang Valley: A Sojourn- Sanctuary of the Northern Straits, Shireen Jahn Kassim, Noorhanita Abdul Majid

Biography

Shireen Jahn Kassim is the Director of EAG Consulting SDN BHD, a multidisciplinary consulting firm in sustainable design, engineering, and heritage services.

Illyani Ibrahim is an Associate Professor at International Islamic University Malaysia and a corporate member of the Institution of Geospatial and Remote Sensing Malaysia (RISM) and associate member of the Malaysian Institute of Planners (Mip). She specializes in the application of the Geographical Information System (GIS) and remote sensing in environmental analysis and cultural conservation of heritage.