ABSTRACT
This chapter has three sections. First, it examines the decolonisation strategy of civilisationism associated with Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) and Putrajaya projects. The second section examines in detail how KLCC project and Putrajaya city respectively have centralised Malay Islam in the imagination of national identity and naturalised power relations among different ethnic groups. The last section examines the identification of the Chinese community to the KLCC and Putrajaya projects and shows how the Chinese were marginalised in the imagination of the Malaysian nation. The KLCC project, coupled with Petronas Twin Towers, rewrites the city of Kuala Lumpur by creating a new centre away from the former old city centre near the colonial bloc and Chinatown. It remaps the new power of the city centre and represents the state's imagined power relation between the Malays and the non-Malays. It discusses mainly the state's machinery and imagination of the Malaysian nation through the urban built form.
