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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792033203321

Autore

Marshall Richard <1967-, >

Titolo

Emerging urbanity : global urban projects in the Asia Pacific Rim / / Richard Marshall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Spon Press, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-15985-8

0-203-85782-8

1-299-28554-6

1-135-15986-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

307.1/216/095

Soggetti

City planning - Asia

City planning - Pacific Area

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Emerging Urbanity: Global Urban Projects in the Asia Pacific Rim; Copyright; Contents; Illustration Credits; Acknowledgments; 1 Emerging Urbanity; 2 Urban Projects in a Global World; 3 Tokyo Rainbow Town, Japan; 4 The Project of the Century; 5 The Golden City in the City of Angels; 6 The Focal Point of China; 7 The Silicon Valley of China; 8 Doi Moi and the Ascending Dragons of Vietnam; 9 New Downtown - Ideas for the City of Tomorrow; 10 The Making of a Malaysian Capital; 11 The Idea of the City - Critical Pasts and Futures; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Discussions on the global economy focus on the hyper-mobility of capital, the possibility of instantaneous transmission of information and money around the globe, the centrality of information outputs to our economic systems and emphasise the neutralisation of geography and of places. What is ignored, however, is that even the most advanced information industries need a material infrastructure of buildings and work processes, and considerable agglomeration, in order to operate in global markets. Further, the globalisation of economic activity has brought with it not only a vast dispersal of of