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Growing the Game of Golf in Colonial Kuala Lumpur: Elites and Privatized Urban Planning in Southeast Asia, 1893-1957

Journal of Urban History

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Abstract

Journal of Urban History, Volume 52, Issue 3, Page 621-638, May 2026.
Golf courses played an important, yet understudied role, in urban colonial town planning in Southeast Asia during the first half of the twentieth century. This article explores the establishment and growth of the Selangor Golf Club, the pre-eminent golf ...