Emerging Urbanity: Global Urban Projects in the Asia Pacific Rim

ISBN-13: 9780415256230 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 224 str.

Richard Marshall; R. Marshall; Richard Marshall

Opis

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 emphasize the neutralization 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 globalization of economic activity has brought with it not only a vast dispersal of offices and factories, but also a growing importance of central functions to manage and coordinate such worldwide networks of activities. The development of global urban projects is one manifestation of this move towards centrality in urban situations.

Spis treści

1. Emerging Urbanity 2. Tokyo Rainbow Town, Japan 3. The Project of the Century, Minato Mirai 21, Yokohama, Japan 4.The Golden City in the City of Angels, Muang Thong Thani, Bangkok, Thailand 5. Focal Point of China, Lujiazui, Shanghai 6. The Silicon Valley of China, Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park, Beijing 7. Doi Moi and the Ascending Dragons of Vietnam, Hanoi North and Saigon South 8. New Downtown - Ideas for the City of Tomorrow, Singapore's New Central Business District 9. The Making of a Malaysian Capital, Putrajaya and the Multimedia Super Corridor, Kuala Lumpur 10. The Idea of the City - Critical Pasts and Futures. Bibliography.

O autorze

Richard Marshall is an Associate Professor in Urban Design and Director of Urban Design Programs at the Harvard Design School. He is editor of Waterfronts in Post Industrial Cities published by Spon Press (2001). Prior to joining the faculty at Harvard he was in corporate practice working and living throughout the Asia Pacific Rim.