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Always Something Else : Urban Asia and Africa as Experiment / / Simone AbdouMaliq
Always Something Else : Urban Asia and Africa as Experiment / / Simone AbdouMaliq
Autore AbdouMaliq Simone
Pubbl/distr/stampa Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2016
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (54 pages)
Collana Carl Schlettwein Lectures
Soggetto topico Cities and towns - Africa
Cities and towns - Asia
Urbanization - Africa
Urbanization - Asia
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 3-905758-86-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910465896203321
AbdouMaliq Simone  
Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2016
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Always Something Else : Urban Asia and Africa as Experiment / / Simone AbdouMaliq
Always Something Else : Urban Asia and Africa as Experiment / / Simone AbdouMaliq
Autore AbdouMaliq Simone
Pubbl/distr/stampa Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2016
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (54 pages)
Collana Carl Schlettwein Lectures
Soggetto topico Cities and towns - Africa
Cities and towns - Asia
Urbanization - Africa
Urbanization - Asia
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 3-905758-86-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910798724903321
AbdouMaliq Simone  
Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2016
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Always Something Else : Urban Asia and Africa as Experiment / / Simone AbdouMaliq
Always Something Else : Urban Asia and Africa as Experiment / / Simone AbdouMaliq
Autore AbdouMaliq Simone
Pubbl/distr/stampa Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2016
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (54 pages)
Collana Carl Schlettwein Lectures
Soggetto topico Cities and towns - Africa
Cities and towns - Asia
Urbanization - Africa
Urbanization - Asia
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 3-905758-86-5
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNINA-9910811190303321
AbdouMaliq Simone  
Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2016
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Asian alterity : with special reference to architecture + urbanism through the lens of cultural studies / / William S W Lim
Asian alterity : with special reference to architecture + urbanism through the lens of cultural studies / / William S W Lim
Autore Lim William Siew Wai <1932->
Pubbl/distr/stampa Hackensack, NJ ; ; Singapore, : World Scientific Publishing Co., 2008
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (222, 96 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps
Disciplina 720.95
Soggetto topico Architecture and society - Cross-cultural studies - Asia
Urbanization - Growth - Asia
City and town life - Asia
Cities and towns - Asia
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts
Architecture
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-281-91861-X
9786611918613
981-270-880-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cultural Studies and Asian A+U: Multiple Modernities and Contemporariness; Democracy, Human Rights and Social Justice; Postmodernity and the Avant Garde; Generic, Creative and Mastering; Sustainability and Affordability; Urban Land and Spatial Justice; Civil Society Organizations and Activism; Iconic System and the Poetics; Case Studies of Asian Cities: Bangkok; Ho Chi Minh City; Hong Kong; Tokyo; Melbourne; Shanghai; Singapore; Seoul.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910451030603321
Lim William Siew Wai <1932->  
Hackensack, NJ ; ; Singapore, : World Scientific Publishing Co., 2008
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Asian alterity : with special reference to architecture + urbanism through the lens of cultural studies / / William S W Lim
Asian alterity : with special reference to architecture + urbanism through the lens of cultural studies / / William S W Lim
Autore Lim William Siew Wai <1932-2023.>
Pubbl/distr/stampa Hackensack, NJ ; ; Singapore, : World Scientific Publishing Co., 2008
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (222, 96 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps
Disciplina 720.95
Soggetto topico Architecture and society - Cross-cultural studies - Asia
Urbanization - Growth - Asia
City and town life - Asia
Cities and towns - Asia
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts
Architecture
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-281-91861-X
9786611918613
981-270-880-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cultural Studies and Asian A+U: Multiple Modernities and Contemporariness; Democracy, Human Rights and Social Justice; Postmodernity and the Avant Garde; Generic, Creative and Mastering; Sustainability and Affordability; Urban Land and Spatial Justice; Civil Society Organizations and Activism; Iconic System and the Poetics; Case Studies of Asian Cities: Bangkok; Ho Chi Minh City; Hong Kong; Tokyo; Melbourne; Shanghai; Singapore; Seoul.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910785093703321
Lim William Siew Wai <1932-2023.>  
Hackensack, NJ ; ; Singapore, : World Scientific Publishing Co., 2008
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Asian cities : colonial to global / / edited by Gregory Bracken [[electronic resource]]
Asian cities : colonial to global / / edited by Gregory Bracken [[electronic resource]]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2015
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (381 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 307.76095
Collana Asian citites
Soggetto topico Sociology, Urban - Asia
Cities and towns - Asia
ISBN 90-485-2824-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Asian Cities: Colonial to Global -- Gregory Bracken -- Part One -- Post-colonialism -- 1. Gambling, City, Nation -- Popular Illegality and Nation Building in Singapore, 1960s-1980s -- Kah-Wee Lee -- 2. The Death of the Pasar Malam -- The Counterpoint to Development in the Singapore Story -- Elmo Gonzaga -- 3. Artifice and Authenticity -- Postcolonial Urbanism in Macau -- Thomas Daniell -- 4. Urban Art Images and the Concerns of Mainlandization in Hong Kong -- Minna Valjakka -- Part Two -- Networks -- 5. Honkon Nippō and Hong Kong-Japan Relations -- Re-examining the Geopolitical Position of Colonial Hong Kong in East Asia before the End of World War II -- Wilson Wai Shing Lee -- 6. Chain Reactions -- Japanese Colonialism and Global Cosmopolitanism in East Asia -- Faye Yuan Kleeman -- 7. Old Networks with New Users -- Mapping Global Mobility between Dongguan and Hong Kong -- Max Hirsh -- 8. Asian Cities in the Global Maritime Network since the Late Nineteenth Century -- César Ducruet -- 9. Back to the Future -- Feasible Cost-Sharing Co-operation in the Straits of Malacca -- Senia Febrica -- Part Three -- Cities and Buildings -- 10. Rallying Towards the Nation -- Theatre of Nation Building in Post-colonial Dhaka -- Kishwar Habib and Bruno De Meulder -- 11. Selectively Connected -- New Songdo and the Production of Global Space -- Bridget Martin -- 12. The Vernacular and the Spectacular -- Urban Identity and Architectural Heritage in Southeast Asian Cities -- Rita Padawangi -- 13. Heritage in Times of Rapid Transformation -- A Tale of Two Cities -- Yangon and Hanoi -- William Logan -- 14. Small-scale, Bottom-up -- Cosmopolitan Linkages Reglobalizing Shanghai's City Centre -- Ying Zhou -- Conclusion -- Global Cities in Asia -- Gregory Bracken -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index -- Figures.
Figure 13.1 The South Gate of the World Heritage-listed Thang Long-Hanoi citadel -- Figure 13.2 The Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, a future World Heritage nomination? -- Figure 13.3 The beaux-arts palace of the French Indochina Governor-General built in Hanoi in 1907 -- Figure 13.4 The neoclassical New Law Courts built in Yangon in 1927 -- Figure 13.5 Demolition site in Hanoi's French Quarter, 1990 -- Figure 13.6 Derelict warehouse, Yangon 2012 -- Figure 14.1 Café Volcan -- Figure 14.2 Yongkang Road -- Figure 14.3 Plan of Jing'an Villas, with ground-floor commercial insertions indicated -- Figure 14.4 Jing'an Villas ground floor commercial viewed from the front courtyard -- Figure 14.5 People reading the plaques of the heritage buildings on Wukang Road -- Figure 14.6 Photos of the interior of huiguan club houses on Wukang Road -- Figure 14.7 Map with the creative commercial activities highlighted and the three research areas around Yongkang Road, Jing'an Villas and Wukang Road -- Tables -- Table 1.1 Gambling-related offences, 1951-1973 -- Table 1.2 Number of prosecutions, 1967-1968 -- Table 9.1 Contribution of each state to the IIP.
Figure 10.2 Inside-out Ramna. These aerial photographs show Ramna as a forest or park at the centre in sharp contrast to the dense urban morphology -- Figure 10.3 Open spaces in the capital. Ramna (number 10) is a vast open public space located at the heart of the capital -- Figure 10.4 Dhaka City Map, 1859 -- Figure 10.5 Map of the new Civil Station of Dhaka (1905) -- Figure 10.6 Neoclassical Dhaka College (left) and Indo-Saracenic Curzon Hall (right) -- Figure 10.7 The wave of new construction around Ramna -- Figure 10.8 Constantine Doxiadis's 1963 plan for the Teachers' Students' Centre (TSC), Ramna -- Figure 10.9 Ramna in 1952 (left) and 1960 (right) -- Figure 10.10 Pseudo-Islamic versus modern architecture in Ramna -- Figure 10.11 The gradual transformation of Ramna racecourse from a maidan (open space) to a children's park and the city's recreational Park Suhrawardy Uddyan (left) -- figure-ground plan of Ramna (right) -- Figure 10.12 The Design interventions of Liberation War Museum at the historical Ramna racecourse (present Suhrawardy Uddyan) -- Figure 10.13 Ramna holds a delicate balance between institutions, representative buildings, and monuments at the centre of the city -- Figure 11.1 New Songdo's high-rise towers, including the First World Complex, with real estate advertisements lining the streets -- Figure 11.2 IFEZ advertisements ('Developing the City at the Heart of South Korea's Leading Service Industries', right-hand poster translation) -- Figure 11.3 Compact Smart City Exhibit Building -- Figure 11.4 Model of New Songdo -- Figure 11.5 Show-model apartment in New Songdo's POSCO (The Sharp at Greenworks) -- Figure 11.6 New Songdo's border area -- Figure 11.7 Ja-ap Village near New Songdo being demolished -- Figure 12.1 Clarke Quay shophouses and the tourist boats -- Figure 12.2 Museum Fatahillah in Kota Tua (Old Town), Jakarta.
Figure 4.9 Street artists Start From Zero (SFZ), poster of Henry Tang, 2013 -- Figure 4.10 Graffiti artist RST2, spray-painted banners of local parties, 2013 -- Figure 4.11 Graffiti artist RST2, poster of Leung Kwok-hung, 2014 -- Figure 4.12 Graffiti artist Pibg Gantz, a spray-painted piece, Macau, 2012 -- Figure 5.1 Japanese submarine cables in East Asia, 1915 -- Figure 5.2 Planned cable routes in the East Asia Stability Sphere, 1940 -- Figure 5.3 The cable and wireless network, 1934 -- Figure 6.1 Bank of Korea (present day) -- Figure 6.2 National Taiwan Museum 1949-present -- Figure 6.3 Remains of torii gate (present day) -- Figure 6.4 Taiwan's Presidential Palace (present day) -- Figure 7.1 Hong Kong-Macau Passenger Ferry Terminal, Humen Town, Dongguan, China -- Figure 7.2 Apartment blocks near the upstream check-in terminal, Dongguan -- Figure 7.3 Rendering of SkyPier, Hong Kong International Airport -- Terminal 1 in the background -- Figure 7.4 APM tunnel between SkyPier and Terminal 1, Hong Kong International Airport -- Figure 7.5 Mainland ferry staff at SkyPier, Hong Kong International Airport -- Figure 7.6 Luggage cranes at SkyPier, Hong Kong International Airport -- Figure 8.1 The Lloyd's Shipping Index in 1890 -- Figure 8.2 Global and local data source comparison based on the Chinese case, 1890-2008 -- Figure 8.3 Regional distribution of world vessel movements, 1890-2008 -- Figure 8.4 Regional distribution of vessel movements in Asia, 1890-2008 -- Figure 8.5 Traffic hierarchy of Asian port cities, 1890-2008 -- Figure 8.6 Port trajectories of selected Asian cities, 1890-2008 -- Figure 10.1 The timeline of Dhaka. The timeline shows the position of Ramna -- a green oasis in-between indigenous and postcolonial extensions of the city.
Figure 1.1 Factors influencing gambling frequency amongst industrial workers -- Figure 1.2 'The individual as target' -- Figure 1.3 Exposing gambling fortifications -- Figure 1.4 'A gambling spot by any other name' -- Figure 3.1 Plan de la Ville et du Port de Macao -- Figure 3.2 Peninsula de Macau e Ilha da Taipa -- Figure 3.3 Aerial photo of Z.A.P.E. Reclamation, 1941 -- Figure 3.4 Aomen shi quan tu (City Plan of Macau) -- Figure 3.5 Z.A.P.E. in the 1980s -- Figure 3.6 Álvaro Siza and P & T Group proposal for N.A.P.E. and Novos Aterros da Areia Preta -- Figure 3.7 N.A.P.E. planning regulations -- Figure 3.8 Eduardo Lima Soares, Nova Cidade de Cotai, plan -- Figure 3.9 Eduardo Lima Soares, Nova Cidade de Cotai, model -- Figure 3.10 Las Vegas Sands Corporation original proposal for the Cotai Strip, 2002 -- Figure 3.11 Novos Zonas Urbanas diagram -- Figure 3.12 Novos Zonas Urbanas rendering -- Figure 3.13 Novos Zonas Urbanas reclamation in progress -- Figure 3.14 Rocco Yim, StarWorld Macau, 2006 -- Figure 3.15 Dennis Lau, Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino, 2007 -- Figure 3.16 View of the Cotai Strip -- Figure 3.17 Gary Goddard, Galaxy Macau, 2011 -- Figure 3.18 AEDES, Sands Cotai Central, 2012 -- Figure 4.1 Tsang Tsou-choi (King of Kowloon), untitled (pair of iron gates), ink on iron gates, 200 cm x 270 cm -- Figure 4.2 MAIS, ORSEK and JAMS, a spray-painted commemorative piece for Tsang in Fotan, 2007 -- Figure 4.3 Anonymous local artists, a sticker in MTR station, 2014 -- Figure 4.4 Anonymous local artists, a sticker in MTR train, 2014 -- Figure 4.5 Street artist Death, Mao with a Yellow Bowtie, stencil, 2012 -- Figure 4.6 Street photographer Cpak Ming, 'Modern VIIV spirit', photograph, 2011 -- Figure 4.7 Chin Tangerine, Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei?, stencil, 2011 -- Figure 4.8 Artist Kacey Wong, 'Attack of the Red Giant', 2014.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910460808703321
Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2015
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Asian cities : colonial to global / / edited by Gregory Bracken [[electronic resource]]
Asian cities : colonial to global / / edited by Gregory Bracken [[electronic resource]]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2015
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (381 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 307.76095
Collana Asian citites
Soggetto topico Sociology, Urban - Asia
Cities and towns - Asia
Soggetto non controllato Asia, Cities, Architecture, Urbanism, Postcolonialism
ISBN 90-485-2824-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Asian Cities: Colonial to Global -- Gregory Bracken -- Part One -- Post-colonialism -- 1. Gambling, City, Nation -- Popular Illegality and Nation Building in Singapore, 1960s-1980s -- Kah-Wee Lee -- 2. The Death of the Pasar Malam -- The Counterpoint to Development in the Singapore Story -- Elmo Gonzaga -- 3. Artifice and Authenticity -- Postcolonial Urbanism in Macau -- Thomas Daniell -- 4. Urban Art Images and the Concerns of Mainlandization in Hong Kong -- Minna Valjakka -- Part Two -- Networks -- 5. Honkon Nippō and Hong Kong-Japan Relations -- Re-examining the Geopolitical Position of Colonial Hong Kong in East Asia before the End of World War II -- Wilson Wai Shing Lee -- 6. Chain Reactions -- Japanese Colonialism and Global Cosmopolitanism in East Asia -- Faye Yuan Kleeman -- 7. Old Networks with New Users -- Mapping Global Mobility between Dongguan and Hong Kong -- Max Hirsh -- 8. Asian Cities in the Global Maritime Network since the Late Nineteenth Century -- César Ducruet -- 9. Back to the Future -- Feasible Cost-Sharing Co-operation in the Straits of Malacca -- Senia Febrica -- Part Three -- Cities and Buildings -- 10. Rallying Towards the Nation -- Theatre of Nation Building in Post-colonial Dhaka -- Kishwar Habib and Bruno De Meulder -- 11. Selectively Connected -- New Songdo and the Production of Global Space -- Bridget Martin -- 12. The Vernacular and the Spectacular -- Urban Identity and Architectural Heritage in Southeast Asian Cities -- Rita Padawangi -- 13. Heritage in Times of Rapid Transformation -- A Tale of Two Cities -- Yangon and Hanoi -- William Logan -- 14. Small-scale, Bottom-up -- Cosmopolitan Linkages Reglobalizing Shanghai's City Centre -- Ying Zhou -- Conclusion -- Global Cities in Asia -- Gregory Bracken -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index -- Figures.
Figure 13.1 The South Gate of the World Heritage-listed Thang Long-Hanoi citadel -- Figure 13.2 The Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, a future World Heritage nomination? -- Figure 13.3 The beaux-arts palace of the French Indochina Governor-General built in Hanoi in 1907 -- Figure 13.4 The neoclassical New Law Courts built in Yangon in 1927 -- Figure 13.5 Demolition site in Hanoi's French Quarter, 1990 -- Figure 13.6 Derelict warehouse, Yangon 2012 -- Figure 14.1 Café Volcan -- Figure 14.2 Yongkang Road -- Figure 14.3 Plan of Jing'an Villas, with ground-floor commercial insertions indicated -- Figure 14.4 Jing'an Villas ground floor commercial viewed from the front courtyard -- Figure 14.5 People reading the plaques of the heritage buildings on Wukang Road -- Figure 14.6 Photos of the interior of huiguan club houses on Wukang Road -- Figure 14.7 Map with the creative commercial activities highlighted and the three research areas around Yongkang Road, Jing'an Villas and Wukang Road -- Tables -- Table 1.1 Gambling-related offences, 1951-1973 -- Table 1.2 Number of prosecutions, 1967-1968 -- Table 9.1 Contribution of each state to the IIP.
Figure 10.2 Inside-out Ramna. These aerial photographs show Ramna as a forest or park at the centre in sharp contrast to the dense urban morphology -- Figure 10.3 Open spaces in the capital. Ramna (number 10) is a vast open public space located at the heart of the capital -- Figure 10.4 Dhaka City Map, 1859 -- Figure 10.5 Map of the new Civil Station of Dhaka (1905) -- Figure 10.6 Neoclassical Dhaka College (left) and Indo-Saracenic Curzon Hall (right) -- Figure 10.7 The wave of new construction around Ramna -- Figure 10.8 Constantine Doxiadis's 1963 plan for the Teachers' Students' Centre (TSC), Ramna -- Figure 10.9 Ramna in 1952 (left) and 1960 (right) -- Figure 10.10 Pseudo-Islamic versus modern architecture in Ramna -- Figure 10.11 The gradual transformation of Ramna racecourse from a maidan (open space) to a children's park and the city's recreational Park Suhrawardy Uddyan (left) -- figure-ground plan of Ramna (right) -- Figure 10.12 The Design interventions of Liberation War Museum at the historical Ramna racecourse (present Suhrawardy Uddyan) -- Figure 10.13 Ramna holds a delicate balance between institutions, representative buildings, and monuments at the centre of the city -- Figure 11.1 New Songdo's high-rise towers, including the First World Complex, with real estate advertisements lining the streets -- Figure 11.2 IFEZ advertisements ('Developing the City at the Heart of South Korea's Leading Service Industries', right-hand poster translation) -- Figure 11.3 Compact Smart City Exhibit Building -- Figure 11.4 Model of New Songdo -- Figure 11.5 Show-model apartment in New Songdo's POSCO (The Sharp at Greenworks) -- Figure 11.6 New Songdo's border area -- Figure 11.7 Ja-ap Village near New Songdo being demolished -- Figure 12.1 Clarke Quay shophouses and the tourist boats -- Figure 12.2 Museum Fatahillah in Kota Tua (Old Town), Jakarta.
Figure 4.9 Street artists Start From Zero (SFZ), poster of Henry Tang, 2013 -- Figure 4.10 Graffiti artist RST2, spray-painted banners of local parties, 2013 -- Figure 4.11 Graffiti artist RST2, poster of Leung Kwok-hung, 2014 -- Figure 4.12 Graffiti artist Pibg Gantz, a spray-painted piece, Macau, 2012 -- Figure 5.1 Japanese submarine cables in East Asia, 1915 -- Figure 5.2 Planned cable routes in the East Asia Stability Sphere, 1940 -- Figure 5.3 The cable and wireless network, 1934 -- Figure 6.1 Bank of Korea (present day) -- Figure 6.2 National Taiwan Museum 1949-present -- Figure 6.3 Remains of torii gate (present day) -- Figure 6.4 Taiwan's Presidential Palace (present day) -- Figure 7.1 Hong Kong-Macau Passenger Ferry Terminal, Humen Town, Dongguan, China -- Figure 7.2 Apartment blocks near the upstream check-in terminal, Dongguan -- Figure 7.3 Rendering of SkyPier, Hong Kong International Airport -- Terminal 1 in the background -- Figure 7.4 APM tunnel between SkyPier and Terminal 1, Hong Kong International Airport -- Figure 7.5 Mainland ferry staff at SkyPier, Hong Kong International Airport -- Figure 7.6 Luggage cranes at SkyPier, Hong Kong International Airport -- Figure 8.1 The Lloyd's Shipping Index in 1890 -- Figure 8.2 Global and local data source comparison based on the Chinese case, 1890-2008 -- Figure 8.3 Regional distribution of world vessel movements, 1890-2008 -- Figure 8.4 Regional distribution of vessel movements in Asia, 1890-2008 -- Figure 8.5 Traffic hierarchy of Asian port cities, 1890-2008 -- Figure 8.6 Port trajectories of selected Asian cities, 1890-2008 -- Figure 10.1 The timeline of Dhaka. The timeline shows the position of Ramna -- a green oasis in-between indigenous and postcolonial extensions of the city.
Figure 1.1 Factors influencing gambling frequency amongst industrial workers -- Figure 1.2 'The individual as target' -- Figure 1.3 Exposing gambling fortifications -- Figure 1.4 'A gambling spot by any other name' -- Figure 3.1 Plan de la Ville et du Port de Macao -- Figure 3.2 Peninsula de Macau e Ilha da Taipa -- Figure 3.3 Aerial photo of Z.A.P.E. Reclamation, 1941 -- Figure 3.4 Aomen shi quan tu (City Plan of Macau) -- Figure 3.5 Z.A.P.E. in the 1980s -- Figure 3.6 Álvaro Siza and P & T Group proposal for N.A.P.E. and Novos Aterros da Areia Preta -- Figure 3.7 N.A.P.E. planning regulations -- Figure 3.8 Eduardo Lima Soares, Nova Cidade de Cotai, plan -- Figure 3.9 Eduardo Lima Soares, Nova Cidade de Cotai, model -- Figure 3.10 Las Vegas Sands Corporation original proposal for the Cotai Strip, 2002 -- Figure 3.11 Novos Zonas Urbanas diagram -- Figure 3.12 Novos Zonas Urbanas rendering -- Figure 3.13 Novos Zonas Urbanas reclamation in progress -- Figure 3.14 Rocco Yim, StarWorld Macau, 2006 -- Figure 3.15 Dennis Lau, Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino, 2007 -- Figure 3.16 View of the Cotai Strip -- Figure 3.17 Gary Goddard, Galaxy Macau, 2011 -- Figure 3.18 AEDES, Sands Cotai Central, 2012 -- Figure 4.1 Tsang Tsou-choi (King of Kowloon), untitled (pair of iron gates), ink on iron gates, 200 cm x 270 cm -- Figure 4.2 MAIS, ORSEK and JAMS, a spray-painted commemorative piece for Tsang in Fotan, 2007 -- Figure 4.3 Anonymous local artists, a sticker in MTR station, 2014 -- Figure 4.4 Anonymous local artists, a sticker in MTR train, 2014 -- Figure 4.5 Street artist Death, Mao with a Yellow Bowtie, stencil, 2012 -- Figure 4.6 Street photographer Cpak Ming, 'Modern VIIV spirit', photograph, 2011 -- Figure 4.7 Chin Tangerine, Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei?, stencil, 2011 -- Figure 4.8 Artist Kacey Wong, 'Attack of the Red Giant', 2014.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910797448103321
Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2015
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Asian cities : colonial to global / / edited by Gregory Bracken [[electronic resource]]
Asian cities : colonial to global / / edited by Gregory Bracken [[electronic resource]]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2015
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (381 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 307.76095
Collana Asian citites
Soggetto topico Sociology, Urban - Asia
Cities and towns - Asia
Soggetto non controllato Asia, Cities, Architecture, Urbanism, Postcolonialism
ISBN 90-485-2824-0
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Asian Cities: Colonial to Global -- Gregory Bracken -- Part One -- Post-colonialism -- 1. Gambling, City, Nation -- Popular Illegality and Nation Building in Singapore, 1960s-1980s -- Kah-Wee Lee -- 2. The Death of the Pasar Malam -- The Counterpoint to Development in the Singapore Story -- Elmo Gonzaga -- 3. Artifice and Authenticity -- Postcolonial Urbanism in Macau -- Thomas Daniell -- 4. Urban Art Images and the Concerns of Mainlandization in Hong Kong -- Minna Valjakka -- Part Two -- Networks -- 5. Honkon Nippō and Hong Kong-Japan Relations -- Re-examining the Geopolitical Position of Colonial Hong Kong in East Asia before the End of World War II -- Wilson Wai Shing Lee -- 6. Chain Reactions -- Japanese Colonialism and Global Cosmopolitanism in East Asia -- Faye Yuan Kleeman -- 7. Old Networks with New Users -- Mapping Global Mobility between Dongguan and Hong Kong -- Max Hirsh -- 8. Asian Cities in the Global Maritime Network since the Late Nineteenth Century -- César Ducruet -- 9. Back to the Future -- Feasible Cost-Sharing Co-operation in the Straits of Malacca -- Senia Febrica -- Part Three -- Cities and Buildings -- 10. Rallying Towards the Nation -- Theatre of Nation Building in Post-colonial Dhaka -- Kishwar Habib and Bruno De Meulder -- 11. Selectively Connected -- New Songdo and the Production of Global Space -- Bridget Martin -- 12. The Vernacular and the Spectacular -- Urban Identity and Architectural Heritage in Southeast Asian Cities -- Rita Padawangi -- 13. Heritage in Times of Rapid Transformation -- A Tale of Two Cities -- Yangon and Hanoi -- William Logan -- 14. Small-scale, Bottom-up -- Cosmopolitan Linkages Reglobalizing Shanghai's City Centre -- Ying Zhou -- Conclusion -- Global Cities in Asia -- Gregory Bracken -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index -- Figures.
Figure 13.1 The South Gate of the World Heritage-listed Thang Long-Hanoi citadel -- Figure 13.2 The Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, a future World Heritage nomination? -- Figure 13.3 The beaux-arts palace of the French Indochina Governor-General built in Hanoi in 1907 -- Figure 13.4 The neoclassical New Law Courts built in Yangon in 1927 -- Figure 13.5 Demolition site in Hanoi's French Quarter, 1990 -- Figure 13.6 Derelict warehouse, Yangon 2012 -- Figure 14.1 Café Volcan -- Figure 14.2 Yongkang Road -- Figure 14.3 Plan of Jing'an Villas, with ground-floor commercial insertions indicated -- Figure 14.4 Jing'an Villas ground floor commercial viewed from the front courtyard -- Figure 14.5 People reading the plaques of the heritage buildings on Wukang Road -- Figure 14.6 Photos of the interior of huiguan club houses on Wukang Road -- Figure 14.7 Map with the creative commercial activities highlighted and the three research areas around Yongkang Road, Jing'an Villas and Wukang Road -- Tables -- Table 1.1 Gambling-related offences, 1951-1973 -- Table 1.2 Number of prosecutions, 1967-1968 -- Table 9.1 Contribution of each state to the IIP.
Figure 10.2 Inside-out Ramna. These aerial photographs show Ramna as a forest or park at the centre in sharp contrast to the dense urban morphology -- Figure 10.3 Open spaces in the capital. Ramna (number 10) is a vast open public space located at the heart of the capital -- Figure 10.4 Dhaka City Map, 1859 -- Figure 10.5 Map of the new Civil Station of Dhaka (1905) -- Figure 10.6 Neoclassical Dhaka College (left) and Indo-Saracenic Curzon Hall (right) -- Figure 10.7 The wave of new construction around Ramna -- Figure 10.8 Constantine Doxiadis's 1963 plan for the Teachers' Students' Centre (TSC), Ramna -- Figure 10.9 Ramna in 1952 (left) and 1960 (right) -- Figure 10.10 Pseudo-Islamic versus modern architecture in Ramna -- Figure 10.11 The gradual transformation of Ramna racecourse from a maidan (open space) to a children's park and the city's recreational Park Suhrawardy Uddyan (left) -- figure-ground plan of Ramna (right) -- Figure 10.12 The Design interventions of Liberation War Museum at the historical Ramna racecourse (present Suhrawardy Uddyan) -- Figure 10.13 Ramna holds a delicate balance between institutions, representative buildings, and monuments at the centre of the city -- Figure 11.1 New Songdo's high-rise towers, including the First World Complex, with real estate advertisements lining the streets -- Figure 11.2 IFEZ advertisements ('Developing the City at the Heart of South Korea's Leading Service Industries', right-hand poster translation) -- Figure 11.3 Compact Smart City Exhibit Building -- Figure 11.4 Model of New Songdo -- Figure 11.5 Show-model apartment in New Songdo's POSCO (The Sharp at Greenworks) -- Figure 11.6 New Songdo's border area -- Figure 11.7 Ja-ap Village near New Songdo being demolished -- Figure 12.1 Clarke Quay shophouses and the tourist boats -- Figure 12.2 Museum Fatahillah in Kota Tua (Old Town), Jakarta.
Figure 4.9 Street artists Start From Zero (SFZ), poster of Henry Tang, 2013 -- Figure 4.10 Graffiti artist RST2, spray-painted banners of local parties, 2013 -- Figure 4.11 Graffiti artist RST2, poster of Leung Kwok-hung, 2014 -- Figure 4.12 Graffiti artist Pibg Gantz, a spray-painted piece, Macau, 2012 -- Figure 5.1 Japanese submarine cables in East Asia, 1915 -- Figure 5.2 Planned cable routes in the East Asia Stability Sphere, 1940 -- Figure 5.3 The cable and wireless network, 1934 -- Figure 6.1 Bank of Korea (present day) -- Figure 6.2 National Taiwan Museum 1949-present -- Figure 6.3 Remains of torii gate (present day) -- Figure 6.4 Taiwan's Presidential Palace (present day) -- Figure 7.1 Hong Kong-Macau Passenger Ferry Terminal, Humen Town, Dongguan, China -- Figure 7.2 Apartment blocks near the upstream check-in terminal, Dongguan -- Figure 7.3 Rendering of SkyPier, Hong Kong International Airport -- Terminal 1 in the background -- Figure 7.4 APM tunnel between SkyPier and Terminal 1, Hong Kong International Airport -- Figure 7.5 Mainland ferry staff at SkyPier, Hong Kong International Airport -- Figure 7.6 Luggage cranes at SkyPier, Hong Kong International Airport -- Figure 8.1 The Lloyd's Shipping Index in 1890 -- Figure 8.2 Global and local data source comparison based on the Chinese case, 1890-2008 -- Figure 8.3 Regional distribution of world vessel movements, 1890-2008 -- Figure 8.4 Regional distribution of vessel movements in Asia, 1890-2008 -- Figure 8.5 Traffic hierarchy of Asian port cities, 1890-2008 -- Figure 8.6 Port trajectories of selected Asian cities, 1890-2008 -- Figure 10.1 The timeline of Dhaka. The timeline shows the position of Ramna -- a green oasis in-between indigenous and postcolonial extensions of the city.
Figure 1.1 Factors influencing gambling frequency amongst industrial workers -- Figure 1.2 'The individual as target' -- Figure 1.3 Exposing gambling fortifications -- Figure 1.4 'A gambling spot by any other name' -- Figure 3.1 Plan de la Ville et du Port de Macao -- Figure 3.2 Peninsula de Macau e Ilha da Taipa -- Figure 3.3 Aerial photo of Z.A.P.E. Reclamation, 1941 -- Figure 3.4 Aomen shi quan tu (City Plan of Macau) -- Figure 3.5 Z.A.P.E. in the 1980s -- Figure 3.6 Álvaro Siza and P & T Group proposal for N.A.P.E. and Novos Aterros da Areia Preta -- Figure 3.7 N.A.P.E. planning regulations -- Figure 3.8 Eduardo Lima Soares, Nova Cidade de Cotai, plan -- Figure 3.9 Eduardo Lima Soares, Nova Cidade de Cotai, model -- Figure 3.10 Las Vegas Sands Corporation original proposal for the Cotai Strip, 2002 -- Figure 3.11 Novos Zonas Urbanas diagram -- Figure 3.12 Novos Zonas Urbanas rendering -- Figure 3.13 Novos Zonas Urbanas reclamation in progress -- Figure 3.14 Rocco Yim, StarWorld Macau, 2006 -- Figure 3.15 Dennis Lau, Grand Lisboa Hotel and Casino, 2007 -- Figure 3.16 View of the Cotai Strip -- Figure 3.17 Gary Goddard, Galaxy Macau, 2011 -- Figure 3.18 AEDES, Sands Cotai Central, 2012 -- Figure 4.1 Tsang Tsou-choi (King of Kowloon), untitled (pair of iron gates), ink on iron gates, 200 cm x 270 cm -- Figure 4.2 MAIS, ORSEK and JAMS, a spray-painted commemorative piece for Tsang in Fotan, 2007 -- Figure 4.3 Anonymous local artists, a sticker in MTR station, 2014 -- Figure 4.4 Anonymous local artists, a sticker in MTR train, 2014 -- Figure 4.5 Street artist Death, Mao with a Yellow Bowtie, stencil, 2012 -- Figure 4.6 Street photographer Cpak Ming, 'Modern VIIV spirit', photograph, 2011 -- Figure 4.7 Chin Tangerine, Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei?, stencil, 2011 -- Figure 4.8 Artist Kacey Wong, 'Attack of the Red Giant', 2014.
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Building resilient urban communities / / by Jonas Joerin, Rajib Shaw, Ramasamy R. Krishnamurthy
Building resilient urban communities / / by Jonas Joerin, Rajib Shaw, Ramasamy R. Krishnamurthy
Autore Joerin Jonas
Edizione [First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (209 p.)
Disciplina 363.346
Collana Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management
Soggetto topico Hazard mitigation - India
Emergency management - India
Cities and towns - India
Hazard mitigation - Asia
Emergency management - Asia
Cities and towns - Asia
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-78350-906-6
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Nota di contenuto Front Cover; Building Resilient Urban Communities; Copyright Page; Contents; Building Resilient Urban Communities; Chapter 1 Introduction; Climate disaster resilient urban communities; Case study locations; About the book; References; Chapter 2 Climate disaster risk in urban areas in Asia; Chapter 3 The concept of resilience to disasters; Chapter 4 Resilience in the context of urban disaster risk reduction in India; Disaster risk reduction and resilience in urban areas of India; Summary
Chapter 5 Development and application of a Climate Disaster Resilience Index in Chennai and other Indian citiesClimate disaster resilience index/initiative - Methodology; Key findings from the resilience assessments; Chapter 6 Perceptions of community leaders about enhancing the climate disaster resilience of communities in Chennai, India; Chapter 7 Perceptions of households about enhancing the climate disaster resilience of communities in Chennai, India; Community disaster resilience; Chapter 8 Making Chennai resilient to climate-related disasters
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The emerging Asian city : concomitant urbanities and urbanisms / / edited by Vinayak Bharne
The emerging Asian city : concomitant urbanities and urbanisms / / edited by Vinayak Bharne
Pubbl/distr/stampa Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (295 p.)
Disciplina 307.76095
Altri autori (Persone) BharneVinayak
Soggetto topico Cities and towns - Asia
Urbanization - Asia
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 0-203-09465-4
1-283-85234-9
1-136-20852-6
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Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
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
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