The emerging Asian city : concomitant urbanities and urbanisms /
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.