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Ideas of the city in Asian settings /
This book explores the multiple and changing ideas, concepts, and representations that shape contemporary cities in Asia in a historical perspective. It does so by using multiple sources, objects (architecture, planning, spaces and practices), and methods of inquiry. At a time when intense dynamics...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Asian cities.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Adèle Esposito, Henco Bekkering and Charles Goldblum
- The spectral coloniality of Calcutta's ochterlony / Sayandeb Chowdhury
- 'Centering' the city: the Upattasanti Pagoda as symbolic space in Myanmar's new capital of Naypyidaw / Donald M. Seekins
- Transitions: the form and meaning of the 'New Philippine City' after 1898 / Ian Morley
- Global dynamics and tropes of place: 'touristed' spaces and city-making in Macau / Sheyla S. Zandonai
- A city for all: perspectives from colonial Calcutta / Anindita Ghosh
- A world garden city in the new millennium: Chengdu at the crossroads of verbal representation and global vision / Kenny K.K. Ng
- Delhi Incognita: challenging Delhi's collective memory by writing about illegal settlements and eviction / Johanna Hahn
- The physical manifestation of political ideologies in Ali Sadikin's Jakarta (1966-1977) / Pawda F. Tjoa
- Religious gentrification: Islam and the remaking of urban place in Jakarta / Hew Wai Weng
- Invisible technologies and loud narratives: a critical deconstruction of the Songdo 'smart city' project in Korea / Chamee Yang
- Changing ideas of Hanoi: state, citizens, markets / Hans Schenk
- Conclusion / Adèle Esposito, Henco Bekkering and Charles Goldblum.