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xxi, 270 pages : illustrations, plans ; 24 cm.
Introduction : 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 -- Le 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 -- Building 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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.