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Book Synopsis DeCoding Asian Urbanism by : Kenneth Frampton
Download or read book DeCoding Asian Urbanism written by Kenneth Frampton and published by A+d Museum. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: deCoding Asian Urbanism explores the current discourse and creation of innovative architecture and urban interventions that are effectively transforming the spatial and operational landscape of the complex Asian city. The book highlights efforts that strategically embrace the rapid growth and the cultural and physical complexity of the built environment in Asia. While the scale and pace of 21st-century urbanization are staggering and unprecedented, new urban development in Asia alone in the next two decades will likely exceed the urban growth worldwide of the last two hundred years. While Asian cities have historically drawn on their history and regional culture, this critical assimilation has been vastly superseded by the sheer velocity of urban growth inspired by external/global/western models.The phenomenal growth of Asian cities remains a challenge to their infrastructure, existing resources, and the roles that have traditionally constituted city-making in the broadest sense. Essays by some of the most prominent architects, historians, sociologists, urban designers, and activists across the globe provide unique perspectives on the diverse complexity of the Asian city. The book is extensively illustrated with project images, analytical diagrams, maps, and selected photographs. The essays and illustrations complement transcripts and images of spirited panel discussions from a symposium at Harvard University's South Asia Institute that reveal contemporary thinking and practice of design and planning in Asian cities.deCoding Asian Urbanism focuses on those critical interventions that go beyond globalization to achieve a substantive systemic innovation in the Asian City. The book is organized into three sections: Decoding the City, Mediating the City, and Transforming the City. These sections present the context, consider a strategic approach, and present transformational projects that revitalize, renew, and transform the complex urban environment and illustrate their key principles. The urban condition, the historical context, the proposed program, and the stated objectives of stakeholders are considered elements that inform and guide the formal and spatial responses.
Book Synopsis Decoding Asian Urbanism by : Farooq Ameen
Download or read book Decoding Asian Urbanism written by Farooq Ameen and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DeCoding Asian Urbanism explores those urban interventions that are crucial in shaping the physical and spatial environment of the Asian city. The book showcases interventions that are innovative and transformational in their ability to revitalize, renew and transform the urban environment. Through appropriate interventions in their evolving trajectories, the revitalization of our cities will embrace the vast majority of its citizens to benefit from the wide range of dynamics at these strategic global nodes.
Book Synopsis Southeast Asian Urbanism by : Hans-Dieter Evers
Download or read book Southeast Asian Urbanism written by Hans-Dieter Evers and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the results of over two decades of field research on cities and towns of Thailand, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore. The connections between micro and macro processes, between grassroots interactions and urban structures, between social theory and empirical data are analysed to provide a vivid picture of the great variety of urban forms, the social creativity in the slums of Bangkok, Manila or Jakarta, the variety of cultural symbolism and the political and religious structuration of urban space. The book is written in the tradition of German or European sociological research from Marx and Weber to Habermas and Bourdieu. It will be of interest to urban anthropologists, political scientists and sociologists, to students of Southeast Asian history, culture and society, to urban planners and policy makers.
Book Synopsis A Theory of Indigenous Southeast Asian Urbanism by : Richard A. O'Connor
Download or read book A Theory of Indigenous Southeast Asian Urbanism written by Richard A. O'Connor and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 1983 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Southeast Asian urban life follows cultural lines set out by the region's early Indic cities. In this indigenous urban tradition the city rules society through a division of power and elaboration of urban-centered status distinctions. Where earlier studies sought Western patterns in Southeast Asian cities, this is the first study to interpret the region's cities wholly within their own historical cultural continuities.
Download or read book Worlding Cities written by Ananya Roy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization. It includes important contributions from a respected group of scholars across a range of generations, disciplines, and sites of study. Describes the new theoretical framework of ‘worlding’ Substantially expands and updates the themes of capital and culture Includes a unique collection of authors across generations, disciplines, and sites of study Demonstrates how references to Asian power, success, and hegemony make possible urban development and limit urban politics
Book Synopsis Asian Ethical Urbanism by : William Siew Wai Lim
Download or read book Asian Ethical Urbanism written by William Siew Wai Lim and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2005 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - The author, having lectured widely on subjects relating to architecture and urbanism around the region, has in depth knowledge of Asian cities and their urban and architectural conditions - The book provides an alternative urbanism addressing the unprecedented urban explosion in the emerging non-Western economies and the increasingly prevalent post-modern conditions of pluralistic culture, tolerance of differences, fragmentation and chaotic order - The book presents a radical theory of Asian ethical urbanism, which transcends and discards the constraints and rigidity of modernist planning and situates its critical substances within the challenging conditions of Asian cities today
Book Synopsis Decoding the Transformation of Chinese Urban Collective Living Patterns by : Congting Yang
Download or read book Decoding the Transformation of Chinese Urban Collective Living Patterns written by Congting Yang and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Asian New Urbanism and Other Papers by : William Siew Wai Lim
Download or read book Asian New Urbanism and Other Papers written by William Siew Wai Lim and published by Select Books (Singapore). This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Urban Planning and Development in China and Other East Asian Countries by : Guanzeng Zhang
Download or read book Urban Planning and Development in China and Other East Asian Countries written by Guanzeng Zhang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines urban development and its role in planning in China and other Asian cities. Starting with a substantial narrative on the history, development philosophy, and urban form of ancient Asian cities, it then identifies the characteristics of urban society and different phases of development history. It then discusses urbanization patterns in China with a focus on spatial layout of the city clusters in the Yangtze River Delta since the 20th Century. Lastly, it explores institutional design and the legal system of urban planning in China and other Asian cities. As a textbook for the “Model Course in English” for international students listed by the Ministry of Education in China, it helps international researchers and students to understand urban development and planning in Asian cities.
Download or read book Messy Urbanism written by Manish Chalana and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seemingly messy and chaotic, the landscapes and urban life of cities in Asia possess an order and hierarchy that often challenges understanding and appreciation. With contributions by a cross-disciplinary group of authors, Messy Urbanism: Understanding the “Other” Cities of Asia examines a range of cases in Asia to explore the social and institutional politics of urban informality and the contexts in which this “messiness” emerges or is constructed. The book brings a distinct perspective to the broader patterns of informal urban orders and processes as well as their interplay with formalized systems and mechanisms. It also raises questions about the production of cities, cityscapes, and citizenship. Messy Urbanism will appeal to professionals, students, and scholars in the fields of urban studies, architecture, landscape architecture, planning and policy, as well as Asian studies. “The rubric of ‘messy urbanism’ is a productive antidote to the binaries that have limited a productive discussion about urbanism in Asia. This book is a significant contribution in understanding the inherent nature of the built environments in aspiring democracies—an emergent urbanism that seamlessly embraces the incremental, temporal, and ephemeral as given conditions in the formation of Asian cities.” —Rahul Mehrotra, Architect / Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard University “This book is of a high quality, with multiple examples from Hong Kong and China. The authors have covered the topic admirably and I expect the book to attract a wide readership.” —Vinit Mukhija, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Urban Planning, UCLA
Book Synopsis Asian Alterity: With Special Reference To Architecture And Urbanism Through The Lens Of Cultural Studies by : William Siew Wai Lim
Download or read book Asian Alterity: With Special Reference To Architecture And Urbanism Through The Lens Of Cultural Studies written by William Siew Wai Lim and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian Alterity is an interdisciplinary theoretical analysis that vigorously contests the homogeneity of the mainstream Eurocentric values. Part I argues for the need for an alternate perspective to be introduced so as to understand the diversity of Asia's cultural differences at their varied development stages and to meet the complex challenges of the explosive urban expansion and disruptive changes in traditional cultures and lifestyles.Part II of the book consists of nine case studies of Asian major urban cities by well-established academic writers and urban theorists. Each author presents diverse aspects of urban dynamism. The case studies will collectively demonstrate a broad framework to understand the essentiality of the interdisciplinary mode of Cultural Studies as an important lens towards meeting the challenges in Asian Architecture and Urbanism.Highlights of the book:
Book Synopsis Decoding Subaltern Politics by : James C. Scott
Download or read book Decoding Subaltern Politics written by James C. Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together James C. Scott's most important work on peasant religion and ideology; everyday forms of peasant resistance; and state technologies of personal identification. In a collection of interrelated essays Scott introduces the major concepts that lie at the core of his work and illustrates, through ethnographic and historical work how they can be understood through practical examples.
Book Synopsis The Urban Design of Intervention by : Peter Cookson Smith
Download or read book The Urban Design of Intervention written by Peter Cookson Smith and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents an overview of Asian urbanism and outlines 20 case studies of Asian cities, revealing the diversity and evolution of cultural patterns, geographic spread, density and complexity of urban environment evolution. Featured cities are Bangkok, Beijing, Delhi, George Town, Goa, Hanoi, Jakarta, Kolkata, Kuala Lumpur, Lahore, Macau, Malacca, Manila, Mumbai, Phnom Penh, Seoul, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo and Yangon.
Book Synopsis Decoding the City by : Dietmar Offenhuber
Download or read book Decoding the City written by Dietmar Offenhuber and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MIT based SENSEable City Lab under Carlo Ratti is one of the research centers that deal with the flow of people and goods, but also of refuse that moves around the world. Experience with large-scale infrastructure projects suggest that more complex and above all flexible answers must be sought to questions of transportation or disposal. This edition, edited by Dietmar Offenhuber and Carlo Ratti, shows how Big Data change reality and, hence, the way we deal with the city. It discusses the impact of real-time data on architecture and urban planning, using examples developed in the SENSEable City Lab. They demonstrate how the Lab interprets digital data as material that can be used for the formulation of a different urban future. It also looks at the negative aspects of the city-related data acquisition and control. The authors address issues with which urban planning disciplines will work intensively in the future: questions that not only radically and critically review, but also change fundamentally, the existing tasks and how the professions view their own roles.
Book Synopsis Postcolonial Urbanism by : Ryan Bishop
Download or read book Postcolonial Urbanism written by Ryan Bishop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common assumption about cities throughout the world is tht they are essentially an elaboration of the Euro-American model. Postcolonial Urbanism demonstrates the narrowness of this vision. Cities in the postcolonial world, the book shows, are producing novel forms of urbanism not reducible to Western urbanism. Despite being heavily colonized in the past, Southeast Asia has been largely ignored in discussions about postcolonial theory and in general considerations of global urbanism. An international cast of contributors focuses on the heavily urbanized world region of Southeast Asia to investigate the novel forms of urbanism germinating in postcolonial settings such as Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Hanoi, and the Philippines. Offering a mix of theoretical perspectives and empirical accounts, Postcolonial Urbanism presents a panoramic view of the cultures, societies, and politics of the postcolonial city.
Book Synopsis SG3, Decoding Sustainable Urbanism by : Nirmal Kishnani
Download or read book SG3, Decoding Sustainable Urbanism written by Nirmal Kishnani and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is growing consensus that sustainability, as an imperative, compels us to rethink what we design. How this in turn affects process and approach, the question of how we design, remains unclear. This is true in education as it is in practice. Educators struggle to reconcile the dissonance between conventions of pedagogy and emerging tools and metrics of sustainability; practitioners fall back on industry checklists for green building certification. It does not help that 'sustainability' is hard to pin down. The people-profit-planet principle -- useful as classroom rhetoric -- sheds no light on process. We are left with elemental knowledge, without tactical knowhow. This book presents the work of students and their teachers across three studios of the Master of Science, Integrated Sustainable Design (MSc ISD) programme at the School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore. The students -- from varied backgrounds and disciplines -- were assigned a large site in Singapore which they had to reimagine for a distant future. Each studio began with research and mapping, culminating in a masterplan that linked multiple parts of each site into an integrated, yet differentiated, whole. The title of this book, SG3, speaks to the cumulative impact of these interventions, which is more than the sum of three sites. Each site amplifies the other, resulting in a new way of thinking and acting. The pages ahead are organised according to the stages of the studio process, prefaced by a discussion on why Dr. Nirmal Kishnani -- who taught all three studios -- offers an educator's perspective, asking what the outcome says about the teaching of sustainable design. Asma Khawatmi -- who co-taught the first studio, and helped frame a direction that was applied to all three -- examines when and how principles known to urban designers in practice are adapted to emerging imperatives of sustainability. Deepshi Bhogal and Mayank Kaushal were both students of the programme, and are now successful practitioners in Singapore with a deep interest in sustainability. In the epilogue, they reflect on how their time in the studio shaped later decisions at the practitioner's drawing board."--Page 7.
Book Synopsis Global and Local Spheres by : Rüdiger Korff
Download or read book Global and Local Spheres written by Rüdiger Korff and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
