02964oam 2200637I 450 991079203320332120230617031521.01-135-15985-80-203-85782-81-299-28554-61-135-15986-610.4324/9780203857823 (CKB)2560000000099676(EBL)1144410(OCoLC)831119796(SSID)ssj0000885211(PQKBManifestationID)11550361(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000885211(PQKBWorkID)10946944(PQKB)10278233(MiAaPQ)EBC1144410(Au-PeEL)EBL1144410(CaPaEBR)ebr10670487(CaONFJC)MIL459804(OCoLC)841171522(OCoLC)830323574(FINmELB)ELB132544(EXLCZ)99256000000009967620180706d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEmerging urbanity global urban projects in the Asia Pacific Rim /Richard MarshallNew York :Spon Press,2003.1 online resource (225 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-138-41085-3 0-415-25623-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexDiscussions 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 ofCity planningAsiaCity planningPacific AreaCity planningCity planning307.1/216/095Marshall Richard1967-,1571013MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792033203321Emerging urbanity3845072UNINA