Kah‐wee Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3779985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kah‐wee Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kah‐wee |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE K W |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0753-2929 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A pedagogy of anachronism: Learning through a misfit between theory and practice
This paper presents a pedagogy of anachronism where learning occurs through a misfit between theory and practice. It was developed and tested in a class taught from 2016 to 2019, where students repeated Kevin Lynch’s original 1960 experiment on cognitive mapping in a location much smaller in scale and with a very different social composition from the cities that Lynch analyzed. The deliberate misfit transformed a method designed to understand use…
Architecture, tactics and mobility – Appropriating space at a transport hub in Shanghai
Although public transport development has been widely addressed in extant urban research, everyday practices in transport spaces and their broader implications for urbanizing China are relatively less studied. Building on de Certeau’s concept of “tactics” and the literature on urban mobility, this study employs spatial analysis and ethnography to investigate the case of the Shanghainan Railway Station (SHNS) in China that had become underused aft…
Modernity’s Other
The four essays in this special section feature recent work in South East Asian architectural and urban history that de-centres the nation-state as the primary subject of history by disclosing what has been excluded from or hidden in the grand narratives of nationalism. Responding to calls to move away from the geographical boundedness of Area Studies while stimulating interdisciplinary dialogue, it positions the built environment as a common arc…
James A. Warren . Gambling, the State and Society in Thailand, c.1800–1945. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. 244 pp
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Technical frames of affect: Design-work and brand-work in a shopping mall
Feeling like a State: Design Guidelines and the Legibility of 'Urban Experience' in Singapore
This article examines how 'urban experience' is objectified and transformed into something that is legible to the state and its experts. It conceptualizes design guidelines as a political technology where bodies of expert knowledge, emplaced in a planning bureaucracy, shape the way the built environment is produced and experienced. Using Singapore as an example of a centralized planning bureaucracy, I analyze how lighting, public art and advertis…
Transforming Macau: Planning as Institutionalized Informality and the Spatial Dynamics of Hypercompetition
This paper examines the crucial years between 2002 and 2012 when land enclosures, reclamation works, and architectural production transformed the urban landscape of Macau. Building on the literature on urban informality, I first analyze how planning as institutionalized informality unmapped the city of Macau through a complex medium of neoliberal ethos, technical rationality, and geopolitical calculations. Then, I show how the casino concessionai…
Technical frames of affect: Design-work and brand-work in a shopping mall
Feeling like a State: Design Guidelines and the Legibility of 'Urban Experience' in Singapore
This article examines how 'urban experience' is objectified and transformed into something that is legible to the state and its experts. It conceptualizes design guidelines as a political technology where bodies of expert knowledge, emplaced in a planning bureaucracy, shape the way the built environment is produced and experienced. Using Singapore as an example of a centralized planning bureaucracy, I analyze how lighting, public art and advertis…
Transforming Macau: Planning as Institutionalized Informality and the Spatial Dynamics of Hypercompetition
This paper examines the crucial years between 2002 and 2012 when land enclosures, reclamation works, and architectural production transformed the urban landscape of Macau. Building on the literature on urban informality, I first analyze how planning as institutionalized informality unmapped the city of Macau through a complex medium of neoliberal ethos, technical rationality, and geopolitical calculations. Then, I show how the casino concessionai…
Technical frames of affect: Design-work and brand-work in a shopping mall
Feeling like a State: Design Guidelines and the Legibility of 'Urban Experience' in Singapore
This article examines how 'urban experience' is objectified and transformed into something that is legible to the state and its experts. It conceptualizes design guidelines as a political technology where bodies of expert knowledge, emplaced in a planning bureaucracy, shape the way the built environment is produced and experienced. Using Singapore as an example of a centralized planning bureaucracy, I analyze how lighting, public art and advertis…
Transforming Macau: Planning as Institutionalized Informality and the Spatial Dynamics of Hypercompetition
This paper examines the crucial years between 2002 and 2012 when land enclosures, reclamation works, and architectural production transformed the urban landscape of Macau. Building on the literature on urban informality, I first analyze how planning as institutionalized informality unmapped the city of Macau through a complex medium of neoliberal ethos, technical rationality, and geopolitical calculations. Then, I show how the casino concessionai…
James A. Warren . Gambling, the State and Society in Thailand, c.1800–1945. London and New York: Routledge, 2013. 244 pp
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Modernity’s Other
The four essays in this special section feature recent work in South East Asian architectural and urban history that de-centres the nation-state as the primary subject of history by disclosing what has been excluded from or hidden in the grand narratives of nationalism. Responding to calls to move away from the geographical boundedness of Area Studies while stimulating interdisciplinary dialogue, it positions the built environment as a common arc…
Architecture, tactics and mobility – Appropriating space at a transport hub in Shanghai
Although public transport development has been widely addressed in extant urban research, everyday practices in transport spaces and their broader implications for urbanizing China are relatively less studied. Building on de Certeau’s concept of “tactics” and the literature on urban mobility, this study employs spatial analysis and ethnography to investigate the case of the Shanghainan Railway Station (SHNS) in China that had become underused aft…
A pedagogy of anachronism: Learning through a misfit between theory and practice
This paper presents a pedagogy of anachronism where learning occurs through a misfit between theory and practice. It was developed and tested in a class taught from 2016 to 2019, where students repeated Kevin Lynch’s original 1960 experiment on cognitive mapping in a location much smaller in scale and with a very different social composition from the cities that Lynch analyzed. The deliberate misfit transformed a method designed to understand use…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Civil engineering (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)