After Le Corbusier: How Southeast Asia Turned the Satellite City Into a Transit Megaproject

Mei Foo Sun Chuen, Hong Kong SAR. Image © Wpcpey via Wikipedia under license CC BY 4.0Southeast Asia is often narrated as a kind of architectural playground—an arena where modern and contemporary ideals have been tested at full scale through singular, iconic buildings. One can trace an easy lineage through names that have helped shape the region's skyline imagination: Paul Rudolph's Lippo Centre in Hong Kong and The Concourse in Singapore, I.M. Pei's OCBC Centre and Hong Kong's Bank o