Architecture and Urban Form in Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur the capital city of Malaysia is a former colony of the British Empire which today prides itself in being a multicultural society par excellence. However the Islamisation of the urban landscape which is at the core of Malaysia’s decolonisation projects has marginalised the Chinese urban spaces which were once at the heart of Kuala Lumpur. Engaging with complex colonial and postcolonial aspects of the city from the British colonial era in the 1880s to the modernisation period in the 1...See More