Asian ethical urbanism : a radical postmodern perspective /
With the impending demise of modernist planning, the footprints and corpses of failed modernist visions are littered everywhere. A vacuum of implementable urban theories has occurred at the time when unprecedented expansion and restructuring of cities in rapidly developing economies are taking place...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ ; London :
World Scientific Pub.,
©2005.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | With the impending demise of modernist planning, the footprints and corpses of failed modernist visions are littered everywhere. A vacuum of implementable urban theories has occurred at the time when unprecedented expansion and restructuring of cities in rapidly developing economies are taking place. In this collection of essays, William S W Lim zeroes in on the peculiarities and dynamics of present Asian urban and architectural conditions in order to challenge and transcend the socio-ecological forms and political influences generated by the current system of global capitalism. Part I of this. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xxxvi, 240 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-226) and index. |
ISBN: | 9812701133 9789812701138 981256313X 9789812563132 1281896896 9781281896896 |