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

• Autore: Marshall Richard <1967-, >
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Spon Press, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.1/216/095
• Soggetto topico: City planning - Asia; City planning - Pacific Area
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Emerging urbanity
• ISBN: 1-135-15985-8; 0-203-85782-8; 1-299-28554-6; 1-135-15986-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826768203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II