Download or read book The Consumption of Kuala Lumpur written by Ziauddin Sardar and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kuala Lumpur is the postmodern city writ large. Here, cultures (Malay, Chinese, Indian, indigenous, western) collide, mix and re-emerge as a new synthesis. Past, present and future collapse onto a single landscape, inducing almost total disorientation and lack of direction.