Henco Bekkering, Adčle Esposito, Charles Goldblum, Sayandeb Chowdhury, Donald M. Seekins

Ideas of the City in Asian Settings.

Herausgeber: Goldblum, Charles

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book explores the multiple and changing ideas, concepts, and representations that shape contemporary cities in Asia in a historical perspective.

Produktdetails

• Asian Cities
• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 772g
• ISBN-13: 9789462985612
• ISBN-10: 9462985618
• Artikelnr.: 52006210

Autorenporträt

Henco Bekkering is Emeritus Professor of Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He has been Netherlands Visiting Professor at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, USA, and Visiting Scholar at the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR China. Dr. Adèle Esposito was trained as an architect and urban planner. She is a researcher at the Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (CNRS-IRASEC), Bangkok, Thailand. Her research deals with the uses of cultural heritage in the contemporary development of Southeast Asian cities. Dr. Charles Goldblum is Emeritus Professor in Urban Planning at the University of Paris 8 and former director of the French Institute of Planning. Being a specialist in Southeast Asian urban studies and the author of several papers and books in this realm, he is currently associated researcher at AUSser/IPRAUS Research Laboratory (CNRS/ENSAPB).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword, Chapter 1 Introduction Adèle Esposito, Henco Bekkering, Charles
Goldblum Chapter 2 The Spectral Coloniality of Calcutta's Ochterlony
Sayanheb Chowdhury Chapter 3 'Centering' the City: the Upattasanti Pagoda
as Symbolic Space in Myanmar's New Capital of Naypyidaw Donald M. Seekins
Chapter 4 Transitions: The Form and Meaning of the 'New Philippine City'
After 1898 Ian Morley Chapter 5 Global dynamics and tropes of place:
'touristed' spaces and city-making in Macau Sheyla S. Zandonai Chapter 6 A
City for All: Perspectives from Colonial Calcutta Anindita Ghosh Chapter 7
A World Garden City in the New Millennium: Chengdu at the Crossroads of
Verbal Representation and Global Vision Kenny K.K. Ng Chapter 8 Delhi
Incognita: Challenging Delhi's Collective Memory by Writing about Illegal
Settlements and Eviction Johanna Hahn Chapter 9 Physical Manifestation of
Political Ideologies in Ali Sadi-kin's Jakarta (1966-1977) Pawda F. Tjoa
Chapter 10 Religious Gentrification: Islam and the Remaking of Urban Place
in Jakarta Hew Wai Weng Chapter 11 Invisible Technologies and Loud
Narratives: A Critical Deconstruction of the Songdo 'Smart City' Project in
Korea Chamee Yang Chapter 12 Changing ideas of Hanoi: state, citizens,
markets Hans Schenk Chapter 13 Conclusion Adèle Esposito, Henco Bekkering,
Charles Goldblum.