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The Emerging Asian City : Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms.
The Asian urban landscape contains nearly half of the planet's inhabitants and more than half of its slum population living in some of its oldest and densest cities. It encompasses some of the world's oldest civilizations and colonizations, and today contains some of the world's faste...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Framing the Asian city / Vinayak Bharne
- Part I. Traditions : Anointed cities: the incremental urbanism of Hindu India / Vinayak Bharne
- Cultivation cultural memory: observing ethnic transitions in Inner Mongolia / Eric Schuldenfrei
- The paradise between two worlds: rereading Taj Mahal and its environs / Vinayak Bharne
- Vernacular shifts: observing dwelling patterns in Anatolian Turkey / Vic Liptak
- Axes and alleyways: the tradition of duality in contemporary Korean cities / Pilwon Han
- The cultural construction of Surakarta, Java / Robert Cowherd
- The new Old City: nostalgia, representation and gentrification in historic Damascus / Christa Salamandra
- The death and life of traditional aquatic settlements in central Thailand / Kasama Polakit
- Part II. tensions : Tensions manifested: reading the Viceroy's House in New Delhi / Aseem Inam
- Macau paradox: post-colonial Portuguese-Chinese urban manifestations / Marisa Yiu
- Le Corbusier's ruin: the changing face of Chandigarh's Capital / Vinayak Bharne
- High dreams and stark realities: reading Islamabad / Noman Ahmed and Hanif Daud
- An (almost) all-American city: the vision and legacy of the Tehran Comprehensive Plan / Vesta Nele Zareh
- The dilemmas of conservation and reconstruction in Beirut / Aseel Sawalha
- Manifesting democracy: Public space and the search for identity in post-war Japan / Vinayak Bharne
- The post-colonial unconscious: observing mega-imagistic urban projects in Asia / Abidin Kusno
- Part III. Transformations : Global architecture and ethnic enclaves: reading Kuala Lumpur's city centre / Mari Fujita
- Making way for a global metropolis: Mumbai's rapidly transforming informal sector / Manish Chalana
- From handshake buildings to golf villas: how the flash cities of Manchester and Shenzhen came of age / Nick Roberts
- Reshaping Hong Kong: dimensions of change in a compact city / Peter Cookson Smith
- Building utopias: China's emerging new town movement / Zhongjie Lin
- Vertical urbanism, horizontal urbanity: notes from east Asian cities / Jeffrey Hou
- The museum as economic catalyst: Abu Dhabi's new cultural district / Seth Thompson
- The 'Dubai effect': the Gulf, the art world and globalization / Brettany Shannon
- Epilogue : Engaging the Asian city / Vinayak Bharne and Aseem Inam.