Emerging Urbanity: Global Urban Projects in the Asia Pacific Rim

ISBN-13: 9781138410855 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 224 str.

Richard Marshall

Opis

Emerging Urbanity provides a critical reading of urban transformations throughout the world and in particular in Asia. Includes case studies of detailed design analysis of the largest urban developments in the Pacific Rim.

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.