Port cities in Asia and Europe
By: edited by Arndt Graf and Chua Beng Huat.
Contributors: Graf, Arndt.; Chua, Beng Huat.
Series: Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia -- 54
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780710311832; 9780203884515
Subjects: Harbors -- Asia; Harbors -- Europe; Globalization; Cross-cultural studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The port of Osaka : from ancient times to today / Towao Sakaehara; title: Relations between Marseille and east and southeast Asia / Laurent Metzger; title: Three harbour cities : an exploration of the ports of IJmuiden (The Netherlands), Banjul (The Gambia) and Jakarta (Indonesia) / Peter J.M. Nas, Timoer Reijnders, Eline Steenhuisen; title: "Ever-changing waterfronts" : urban development and transformation processes in ports and waterfront zones in Singapore, Hong Kong and Shanghai / Dirk Schubert; title: The 1999 decentralization policy, local politics and local capacity of the port city of Surabaya / Kacung Marijan; title: "The future lies in the past" : re-inventing the former port city of George Town, Penang / Morshidi Sirat; title: When port cities encounter revolution : the Hong Kong and Singapore experiences / Yong Mun Cheong; title: Port cities in northern Japan and Pacific Russia : relations and exchange / Miriam Rohde; title: Representation and nostalgic reinvention of Shanghai in Chinese films / Yvonne Schulz Zinda; title: Marketing a city-state : Hamburg and Singapore in comparison / Arndt Graf; title: Eclipse of the port : cultural industry and the next phase of economic development of Singapore / Chua Beng Huat; title: Singapore's story : a port city in search of hinterlands / Tan Tai Yong.