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Messy urbanism : understanding the "other" cities of Asia /

Seemingly messy and chaotic, the landscapes and urban life of cities in Asia possess an order and hierarchy which often challenge understanding and appreciation. With a cross-disciplinary group of authors, Messy Urbanism: Understanding the "Other" Cities of Asia examines a range of cases i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chalana, Manish (Editor ), Hou, Jeffrey, 1967- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Untangling the "messy" Asian city / Jeffrey Hou and Manish Chalana
  • 2. A history of messiness : order and resilience on the sidewalks of Ho Chi Minh City / Annette M. Kim
  • 3. The order of messiness : notes from an Indonesian city / Abidin Kusno
  • 4. Concrete jungle or geocultural cipher? Reading lineage into the perils and prospects of metro Manila / Jose Edgardo A. Gomez Jr.
  • 5. The Royal Field (Sanam Luang) : Bangkok's polysemic urban palimpsest / Koompong Noobanjong
  • 6. Shinjuku [kanji characters for Shinjuku] : messy urbanism at the metabolic crossroads / Ken Tadashi Oshima
  • 7. Little Manila : the other central of Hong Kong / Daisy Tam
  • 8. Neutral equilibrium in public space : Mong Kok Flower Market in Hong Kong / Kin Wai Michael Siu and Mingjie Zhu
  • 9. Making sense of the order in the disorder in Delhi's Kathputti Colony / Manish Chalana and Susmita Rishi
  • 10. Messy work : transnational collaboration in Chandigarh / Vikramāditya Prakāsh
  • 11. Everyday urban flux : temporary urbanism in East Asia as insurgent planning / Jeffrey Hou
  • 12. Messy urbanism and space for community empowerment in China / Daniel Benjamin Abramson
  • Epilogue : sites of questions, contestations, and resistance / Manish Chalana and Jeffrey Hou.