The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities and Urbanisms

The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities and Urbanisms
ISBN-10
0415525977
ISBN-13
9780415525978
Category
Architecture
Pages
296
Language
English
Published
2013
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Vinayak Bharne

Description

Asian cities create concomitant imagery - polarizations of poverty and wealth, blurry lines between formality and informality, and stark juxtapositions of ancient historic places with shimmering new skylines. With Asia's re-emergence on the global stage, there is an acute focus on its multifarious urban issues and identities: What are Asian cities going to become? Will they surpass the economic and environmental debacles of the West? This collection of twenty-four essays surveys the most dominant issues shaping the Asian urban landscape today. It offers scholarly reflections and positions on the forces shaping Asian cities, and the forces that they in turn are shaping.

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