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Cross-Cultural Urban Design : Global or Local Practice?.
Unprecedented in its scope, Cross-Cultural Urban Design: Global or Local Practice? explores how urban design has responded to recent trends towards global standardisation. Following analysis of its practice in the local domain, the book looks at how urban planning and design should be repositioned f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Front Cover; Cross-Cultural Urban Design; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustration credits; List of contributors; Foreword: confronting epistem; Acknowledgements; Introduction: cross-cultural practice
- why experiment now?: Catherin Bull and Claire Parin; Part 1: Reconceptualizing the city; Introduction: new ways to read difference: Claire Parin; 1. Finding the identity of place through local landscapes: Mooban and Kampong: Sani Limthongsakul; 2. Erasure, layering, transformation, absorption: the convergence of formal traditions: Sidh Sintusingha.
- 3. Between 'asianization' and 'new cosmopolitanism': housing in twenty-first-century Singapore: Xavier Guillot4. Dissolved identity and disintegrated globalization: Steven Whitford; 5. The communal project and the reinforcement of values: Emmanuel Amougou Mballa; 6. Urban development and context: the traditional landscape and globalization in Marrakech: Jean-Noël Tournier; 7. The urban edge: Bangkok soi as mediators of the global and local: Koen De Wandeler; 8. Eco-planning for development in northern Thailand: Thada Sutthitham; 9. Local identity in Bangkok's business districts: Ornsiri Panin.
- Part 2: Experiments in practiceIntroduction: the dynamics of the urban design project: Guy Tapie and Darko Radović; 10. Transparency in sustainable development: Nhong Han Basin, Thailand: Eggarin Anukulyudhathon; 11. Restructuring the medina in Tunis: El Hafsia: Wassim Ben Mahmoud; 12. Garden urbanism in China and New Zealand: Matthew Bradbury; 13. Revitalizing the Montenegrin village: Gornja Lastva: Laurence Feveile, Marija Nikolic and: Nicolas Petrovitch Njegosh; 14. Strategies to support urban identity: are there European models?: Carlos Gotlieb.
- 15. Mediating global and local: the Montreal experience: Daniel Latouche16. New practices in urban development: Jean-Claude Margueritte; 17. Sustainable tourism for local identity: the hill-tribe villages of northern Thailand: Wandee Pinijvarasin and Pasinee Sunakorn; 18. Making the city: the Bordeaux experience: Michel Bergeron and Patrice Godier; Part 3: Learning cross-cultural practice; Introduction: reflecting on cross-cultural interactions: Catherin Bull and Davisi Boontharm; 19. Casts, roles and scripts of otherness: Darko Radović
- 20. Analysis, concept and the value of words: Davisi Boontharm21. Work and/or play?: Piyalada D. Thaveeprungsriporn; 22 Why use English?: Singh Intrachooto; 23. Sustainability learnt from difference: Glenn Thomas; 24. Experiencing cross-cultural practice: Catherin Bull; 25. Workshops as culture: Guy Tapie; Conclusion: urban design for a cross-cultural future: Catherin Bull, Darko Radović and Claire Parin; Index.