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1. The City as Target

   Edited by Ryan Bishop, Gregory Clancey, John W. Phillips

   Series: Postcolonial Politics

   Bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, The City as Target provides a sustained and critical response to the relationship between the concept of targeting (in its many forms) and notions of understanding, imagining and shaping the urban. Among the many spatial and graphic...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Evaluating and Treating Families

   The McMaster Approach

   By Christine Ryan, Nathan B. Epstein, Gabor I. Keitner, Ivan W. Miller, Duane S. Bishop

   This comprehensive text is organized into two parts, the first of which presents an overview of the history, development, and theory of the model, and its specific applications to treatment, training, assessment, and research. Part II includes the instruments and assessment tools originally...

   Published March 22nd 2005 by Routledge
3. Beyond Description

   Singapore Space Historicity

   Edited by Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei-Wei Yeo

   Series: Architext

   This book addresses issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city. The articles consider how various experiences of Singapore, both from within and from outside, help to complicate existing assumptions...

   Published April 14th 2004 by Routledge
4. Postcolonial Urbanism

   Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes

   Edited by Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei Wei Yeo

   A common assumption about cities throughout the world is tht they are essentially an elaboration of the Euro-American model. Postcolonial Urbanism demonstrates the narrowness of this vision. Cities in the postcolonial world, the book shows, are producing novel forms of urbanism not reducible to...

   Published March 13th 2003 by Routledge
5. Night Market

   Sexual Cultures and the Thai Economic Miracle

   By Ryan Bishop, Lillian S. Robinson

   In Thailand, a $4 billion per year tourist industry is the linchpin of the modernization process called the "Thai Economic Miracle". And what is Thailand's main attraction? Sex for hire. Year after year young women are lured to Bangkok to staff the teeming brothels, massage parlors, and sex bars...

   Published November 5th 1997 by Routledge