Table of contents : Maps and Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration and Thai Times Introduction: Interpreting 'Bangkok': Place, practice and representation Part 1. Krung to Global City: The dynamics of transformation 1. Cosmology, Accumulation and the State: The urbanism of early Bangkok 2. The Transformation of Krung Thep 3. The 1990s: A global city in a global age Part 2. Making Bangkok: Place, practice and representation 4. Banglamphu: Change and persistence in the yan 5. Genealogy of the Slum: Pragmatism, politics and locality 6. A Place in the Suburbs: Making a neighbourhood in the middle-class housing estate 7. Fields of Cultural Capital: Land, livelihood and landscape transformation on the rural-urban fringe 8. Condo Land: Global forms and local ecologies 9. Sex Workers in Bangkok: Refashioning female identities in the global 'pleasure space' 10. Contesting Urbanisms: Constructing the past and remaking the present Notes Bibliography
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