The emerging Asian city : concomitant urbanities and urbanisms / / edited by Vinayak Bharne

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.76095
• Soggetto topico: Cities and towns - Asia; Urbanization - Asia
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BharneVinayak
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; THE EMERGING ASIAN CITY: Concomitant urbanities and urbanisms; Copyright; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: Framing the Asian city; PART I Traditions: Editor's introduction; 1 ANOINTED CITIES: The incremental urbanism of Hindu India; 2 CULTIVATING CULTURAL MEMORY: Observing ethnic transitions in Inner Mongolia; 3 THE PARADISE BETWEEN TWO WORLDS: Rereading Taj Mahal and its environs; 4 VERNACULAR SHIFTS: Observing dwelling patterns in Anatolian Turkey; 5 AXES AND ALLEYWAYS: The tradition of duality in contemporary Korean cities ; 6 THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF SURAKARTA, JAVA7 THE NEW OLD CITY: Nostalgia, representation and gentrification in historic Damascus; 8 THE DEATH AND LIFE OF TRADITIONAL AQUATIC SETTLEMENTS IN CENTRAL THAILAND; PART II Tensions: Editor's introduction; 9 TENSIONS MANIFESTED: Reading the Viceroy's House in New Delhi; 10 MACAU PARADOX: Post-colonial Portuguese-Chinese urban manifestations; 11 LE CORBUSIER'S RUIN: The changing face of Chandigarh's Capitol; 12 HIGH DREAMS AND STARK REALITIES: Reading Islamabad; 13 AN (ALMOST) ALL-AMERICAN CITY: The vision and legacy of the Tehran Comprehensive Plan ; 14 THE DILEMMAS OF CONSERVATION AND RECONSTRUCTION IN BEIRUT15 MANIFESTING DEMOCRACY: Public space and the search for identity in post-war Japan; 16 THE POST-COLONIAL UNCONSCIOUS: Observing mega-imagistic urban projects in Asia; PART III Transformations: Editor's introduction; 17 GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE AND ETHNIC ENCLAVES: Reading Kuala Lumpur's city centre; 18 MAKING WAY FOR A GLOBAL METROPOLIS: Mumbai's rapidly transforming informal sector; 19 FROM HANDSHAKE BUILDINGS TO GOLF VILLAS: How the flash cities of Manchester and Shenzhen came of age ; 20 RESHAPING HONG KONG: Dimensions of change in a compact city21 BUILDING UTOPIAS: China's emerging new town movement; 22 VERTICAL URBANISM, HORIZONTAL URBANITY: Notes from east Asian cities; 23 THE MUSEUM AS ECONOMIC CATALYST: Abu Dhabi's new cultural district; 24 THE 'DUBAI EFFECT': The Gulf, the art world and globalization; EPILOGUE: Engaging the Asian city; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The Asian urban landscape contains nearly half of the planet's inhabitants and more than half of its slum population living in some of its oldest and densest cities. It encompasses some of the world's oldest civilizations and colonizations, and today contains some of the world's fastest growing cities and economies. As such Asian cities create concomitant imagery - polarizations of poverty and wealth, blurred lines between formality and informality, and stark juxtapositions of ancient historic places with shimmering new skylines.This book embraces the complexity and ambiguity of the
• Titolo autorizzato: The emerging Asian city
• ISBN: 0-203-09465-4; 1-283-85234-9; 1-136-20852-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462688903321
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