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An Urban Ocean

Notes on the Historical Evolution of Coastal Cities in Greater Southeast Asia

Cornell University

While there are universalizing trends in global urbanization currently taking place, several Southeast Asian cities will adopt these new frameworks and institutions at least partly within a local model that is already several centuries old. Particular to the region, this model does not parallel South and East Asia's urban evolutions, the two regions traditionally regarded as the well-springs of Southeast Asian culture. Rather, it contradicts it. The cities of this arena have been and will continue to be primarily their own creatures from a variety of vantage points. Yet it is only by first examining the pattern of these cities' evolutions that we can hope to gain any insight into how these urban centers may unfold in the future. It is in the distant and colonial past that we can sift for geographic and demographic clues that auger how the new Asian "super-capitals" sitting astride the equator may evolve in the years to come.

Key Words: cities • Southeast Asia • history • coasts

Journal of Urban History, Vol. 33, No. 6, 911-932 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0096144207304035


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