Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Longue Durée Chapter 1. The Nation- State and the City Hall Chapter 2. The Shop House and the Chinese Time Remembered/Time Forgotten Chapter 3. Researching Modernism Chapter 4. The Peasantry and the Periurban Fringe Spatial Conjunctures Chapter 5. The Coast and the Last Frontier Chapter 6. Green Governmentality Chapter 7. Housing the Margin Epilogue Turning Time: An Interview Notes Bibliography Index About the Author