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245 04 $aThe emerging Asian city :$bconcomitant urbanities and urbanisms /$cedited by Vinayak Bharne.
260 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2013.
300 $axxi, 270 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : Framing the Asian city / Vinayak Bharne -- Part I. Traditions : Anointed cities: the incremental urbanism of Hindu India / Vinayak Bharne -- Cultivation cultural memory: observing ethnic transitions in Inner Mongolia / Eric Schuldenfrei -- The paradise between two worlds: rereading Taj Mahal and its environs / Vinayak Bharne -- Vernacular shifts: observing dwelling patterns in Anatolian Turkey / Vic Liptak -- Axes and alleyways: the tradition of duality in contemporary Korean cities / Pilwon Han -- The cultural construction of Surakarta, Java / Robert Cowherd -- The new Old City: nostalgia, representation and gentrification in historic Damascus / Christa Salamandra -- The death and life of traditional aquatic settlements in central Thailand / Kasama Polakit -- Part II. tensions : Tensions manifested: reading the Viceroy's House in New Delhi / Aseem Inam -- Macau paradox: post-colonial Portuguese-Chinese urban manifestations / Marisa Yiu --
505 0 $aLe Corbusier's ruin: the changing face of Chandigarh's Capital / Vinayak Bharne -- High dreams and stark realities: reading Islamabad / Noman Ahmed and Hanif Daud -- An (almost) all-American city: the vision and legacy of the Tehran Comprehensive Plan / Vesta Nele Zareh -- The dilemmas of conservation and reconstruction in Beirut / Aseel Sawalha -- Manifesting democracy: Public space and the search for identity in post-war Japan / Vinayak Bharne -- The post-colonial unconscious: observing mega-imagistic urban projects in Asia / Abidin Kusno -- Part III. Transformations : Global architecture and ethnic enclaves: reading Kuala Lumpur's city centre / Mari Fujita -- Making way for a global metropolis: Mumbai's rapidly transforming informal sector / Manish Chalana -- From handshake buildings to golf villas: how the flash cities of Manchester and Shenzhen came of age / Nick Roberts -- Reshaping Hong Kong: dimensions of change in a compact city / Peter Cookson Smith --
505 0 $aBuilding utopias: China's emerging new town movement / Zhongjie Lin -- Vertical urbanism, horizontal urbanity: notes from east Asian cities / Jeffrey Hou --- The museum as economic catalyst: Abu Dhabi's new cultural district / Seth Thompson -- The 'Dubai effect': the Gulf, the art world and globalization / Brettany Shannon -- Epilogue : Engaging the Asian city / Vinayak Bharne and Aseem Inam.
520 $aThe 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 Asian urban landscape, and surveys its bewildering array of multifarious urbanities and urbanisms. Twenty-four essays offer scholarly reflections and positions on the complex forces and issues shaping Asian cities today, looking at why Asian cities are different from the West and whether they are treading a different path to their futures.
520 $aTheir combined narrative - spanning from Turkey to Japan and Mongolia to Indonesia - is framed around three sections: Traditions reflects on indigenous urbanisms and historic places, Tensions reflects on the legacies of Asia's East-West dialectic through both colonialism and modernism and Transformations examines Asia's new emerging utopias and urban aspirations. The book claims that the histories and destinies of cities across various parts of Asia are far too enmeshed to unpack or oversimplify. Avoiding the categorization of Asian cities exclusively by geographic location (south-east, Middle East), or the convenient tagging of the term Asian on selective regional parts of the continent, it takes a broad intellectual view of the Asian urban landscape as a 'both ... and' phenomenon; as a series of diverse confluences - geographic, historic and political - extending from the deserts of the Persian Gulf region to the Pearl River Delta.
520 $aArguing for Asian cities to be taken seriously on their own terms, this book represents Asia - as a fount of extraordinary knowledge that can challenge our fundamental preconceptions of what cities are and ought to be.
650 0 $aCities and towns$zAsia.
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