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The urban-architectural forms of Malaysia and its tropical urban city is perhaps a reflection of the complex realities of the nation and the population which enables constant fusion and to a certain extent, tensions between Western influences and native cultures as part of the resistance to Western hegemony. Architecture and urban form viewed in a more pragmatic light as tools or a means to an end, rather than debated and theorised for their ends. With respect to Malaysia, Jones (2011) elucidates:
Questions about the political construction of collective identities and the cultural legitimization of power find a clear focus in those objects of state-led architecture that are framed as symbols of national identities … such state-led projexts are active attempts to contribute to the cultural construction and consolidation of communities such as the nation. Hence architecture and urban design either become instruments towards the ultimate goal of social unification or a means towards asserting the nation in a competitive global space and design becomes a means to distinguish oneself from others.
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Ibrahim, M., Jahn Kassim, S. (2018). Between Criticality and Pastiche: The Putrajaya Boulevard. In: Jahn Kassim, S., Mohd Nawawi, N., Ibrahim, M. (eds) Modernity, Nation and Urban-Architectural Form. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66131-5_7
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