Living Capital: Sustaining Diversity in Southeast Asian Cities

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Living Capital: Sustaining Diversity in Southeast Asian Cities A Centre for Khmer Studies Initiating Urban Studies in Cambodia and Capacity Building in Higher Education Conference, in collaboration with The New School University, New York Sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and The Institute for Cultural Enterprise ABSTRACTS PANEL 1: Spaces of Transformation: Remaking Identities through the City Kuala Lumpur: “Truly Malaysia, Truly Asia”? Yeoh Seng Guan, Monash University The particular brand of developmentalism engineered and nurtured by former premier Mahathir Mohamad throughout the 1980s and 1990s has indelibly transformed the Malaysian social imaginary as the country shifted from an agrarian to an industrializing and service-based economy.

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