ABSTRACT
The chapter situates Kuala Lumpur within the larger context of rapidly urbanizing urban centres of newly industrialized countries (NICs). In these places, the recent and rapid rise of the middle class is often coupled with crudely uneven development and a persistent language of walls and divisions that assist in class articulation. The case of Kuala Lumpur is not an exceptional one, but one that helps illustrate a neo-postmodern urbanism that is becoming a norm in newly industrialized urban centres across Asia.
