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Batavia (now Jakarta, Indonesia) was planned from its inception as an ordered, gridded, and canalled eastern trading capital, and should have represented a Dutch ideal, yet it failed from the outset, as stagnant canals spread disease and the social order fragmented. This chapter argues that hierarchy in this city, rather than a deviation from Dutch values, is integral to both this colonial environment as well as Dutch planning more generally. The betrayal of Dutch social values, instead, was that the hierarchy in Batavia was made visible in behavior, dress, and the form of the city itself, as seen in representations of the city in text and image. Dutch hierarchies were meant to remain hidden under a pretense of egalitarianism. |
