The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms

ISBN-13: 9780415525985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 274 str.

Vinayak Bharne

Opis

The 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.

Spis treści

Introduction: Framing the Asian City Vinayak Bharne  Part 1: Traditions  1. Anointed Cities: The Sacred Urbanism of Hindu India  Vinayak Bharne  2. Cultivating Cultural Memory: Observing Ethnic Transitions in Inner Mongolia Eric Schuldenfrei  3. The Paradise Between Two Worlds: Re-reading Taj Mahal and its Environs  Vinayak Bharne  4. Vernacular Shifts: Observing Dwelling Patterns in Anatolian Turkey Vic Liptak 5. Axes and Alleyways: The Tradition of Duality in Historic Korean Cities Pilwon Han  6. The Cultural Construction of Surakarta, Java Robert Cowherd  7. The New Old City: Nostalgia & Change in Historic Damascus Christa Salamandra  8. The Death & Life of Traditional Aquatic Settlements in Central Thailand Kasama Polakit Part 2: Tensions  9. Tensions Manifested: Reading the Viceroy’s House in New Delhi Aseem Inam  10. Macau Paradox: Post-Colonial Portuguese-Chinese Urban Manifestations Marisa Yiu  11. Le Corbusier’s Ruin: The Changing Face of Chandigarh’s Capitol Vinayak Bharne  12. High Dreams and Stark Realities: Reading Islamabad Noman Ahmed & Hanif Daud  13. An (Almost) All American City: The Vision & Legacy of the Tehran Comprehensive Plan Vesta Nareh Zareh  14. The Dilemmas of Conservation & Reconstruction in Beiruit Aseel Sawalha  15. Manifesting Democracy: Public Space and the Search for Identity in Post-War Japan Vinayak Bharne  16. Post-Colonial Subconscious: Observing Mega-projects in south-east Asia Abidin Kusno  Part 3: Transformations 17. Global Architecture and Ethnic Enclaves: Reading Kuala Lumpur’s City Centre Mari Fujita  18. Making Way for a Global Metropolis: Mumbai’s Rapidly Transforming Informal Sector Manish Chalana  19. From Handshake Buildings to Golf Villa Estates: How the "Flash Cities" of Manchaster & Shenzhen Came of Age Nick Roberts  20. The Culture of Compactness: Dimensions of Density in Hong Kong Peter Cookson Smith  21. Building Utopias: China’s Emerging New Town Movement Zhong-jie Lin  22. Vertical Urbanism, Horizontal Urbanity: Notes from South-East Asia Jeff Hou  23. Museums as Catalysts: Abu Dhabi’s Emerging Cultural District Seth Thompson  24. The "Dubai Effect": The Gulf, the Art World & Globalization Brettany Shannon Epilogue: Engaging the Asian City  Vinayak Bharne & Aseem Inam

O autorze

Vinayak Bharne is a joint adjunct faculty at the Sol Price School of Public Policy and School of Architecture at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and the director of design at Moule & Polyzoides Architects & Urbanists. He is the co-author of Re-Discovering the Hindu Temple: The Sacred Architecture & Urbanism of India and a contributing author of several books including Planning Los Angeles and Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture.