Asian American Places of Heritage

Ashima Krishna, PhD, is Associate Director of Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) and Associate Professor of Engineering Practice in the School of Sustainability and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering at Purdue University. She also serves as Director of Urban Matters Lab. She is an architect, urban planner, and historic preservation planner whose research spans the management of historic urban landscapes and adaptive reuse of religious historic structures and landscapes, with a particular focus on intersection with community development and equity issues and resulting policy challenges. Dr. Krishna’s published work has been featured in Journal of Urbanism, Preservation Education and Research, Change Over Time, and Journal of American Planning Association among others. Her co-edited book Heritage Conservation in Postcolonial India: Approaches and Challenges was published by Routledge in 2020.Nathan W. Swanson, JD, PhD, is Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Study Away in the John Martinson Honors College at Purdue University. As a political, feminist, and cultural geographer, his research is focused in three areas: (1) geopolitics of everyday life, (2) public space and power, and (3) critical cartography and counter-mapping (as a member of 3Cs: the Counter-Cartographies Collective). Dr. Swanson has previously conducted research in the Middle East on the geopolitics of home, and his current research focuses on the geographies of Middle Eastern migrant communities in Scandinavia. Dr. Swanson regularly leads domestic and international study away programs for interdisciplinary groups of students and disseminates work on honors education and intercultural learning through publications and conference presentations.

• Introduction. Part 1: Planning, Policy, and Placemaking 1.1. Resistance Opens the Door for the Rebirth of Japantown: Salt Lake City, UT (Ivis García) 1.2. The Roles of Place and Place-Making in the Development of a Southeast Asian Enclave: A Case Study of Argyle Street, Chicago (Julia Crowley) 1.3. Seattle’s Single-Room-Occupancy Residential Hotels and their Chinese Roots (Wei Zhao) 1.4. Community Stabilization and Historic Preservation in Boston’s Chinatown (Lily Song, Lydia Lowe, Jenny Lau, Martin Gao) Part 2: Places of Religious Heritage 2.1. Heritage, Identity, and Place: Sacred Placemaking at the Malibu Temple (Shampa Mazumdar and Sanjoy Mazumdar) 2.2. Palimpsest, Mask, or Scrim? Three Adaptive Reuse Approaches to Hindu Temples in the US (Sagarika Ninad Kulkarni, Anupika Babar, and Joshua D. Lee) 2.3. Hindu Temples in the US: A Transplanted Sacred Geography (Ashima Krishna) 2.4. Becoming Cultural Heritage: Media Framings of the Mother Mosque of America (Nathan W. Swanson) 2.5. Spatial Clustering in Diaspora: South Asian American (SAA) Muslim Religious Spaces in Greater Houston (Humayra Alam) 2.6. Adaptive Reuse and the Conversion of Churches to Mosques in Western New York (Shyam K. Sriram, Thomas Larsen, Olivia Schmidt, Analee DeGlopper) Part 3: Identity, Memory, and Memorialization 3.1. The Oldest Cambodian Temple in Washington State: Cultural Sustainability through Historic Preservation (Rosa Woolsey) 3.2. Gardens of Manzanar: Exploring New Methods in the Historic Preservation of Cultural Landscapes at World War II Confinement Sites (Keiji Uesugi and Lauren Bricker) 3.3. The Iranian American Diaspora in Los Angeles: Cultural Heritage, Identity, and Placemaking in Tehrangeles (Hossein Mousazadeh) 3.4. From Punjab to the Pacific: Honoring and Preserving South Asian Heritage in the U.S. West (Manish Chalana) Conclusion