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Author:   William Siew Wai Lim (Asian Urban Lab, S'pore) ,  Shujuan Lim (-)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 29.90cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 24.00cm
ISBN:  

9789812771070

ISBN 10:   9812771077
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   04 December 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Asian Alterity: Introduction and The Rise of Asia: The Relevance of Cultural Studies; The Rise of Asia; Modernities: Multiple Modernities and Contemporariness; Democracy, Human Rights and Social Justice; Selected Cultural Studies: Cultural Identities, Diaspora and Memories; Globalization and Inequalities; Sustainability and Affordability; Popular Culture and the Contemporary; Asian Architecture and Urbanism: Creativity of the Contemporary; Asian Urbanism -- Challenges Ahead; Asian Architecture -- Challenges Ahead; Part II: Case Studies of Asian Cities: Bangkok: A City in Flux (K Ratanapridakul); Ho Chi Minh City [Saigon]: Before the Doorstep of Global Assimilation (Khang T); Hong Kong: City of Maximum Quantities (S Li); Istanbul: Observations (K N Tan); The Melbourne Case Study: The Consultant Arrives [and sees] ...; (L van Schaik); Seoul: Gangnam Alternative Nature -- The Experience of Nature Without Parks (Y-J Park & J Kim); Shanghai Assessed: Six Architectural Nodes of the City (E Seng et al.); Singapore: In Search of Transparency (J K Kaw); Tokyo: An Urban Collage of Chaos Amidst Order (T Muraji).

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This book on Asian Alterity is so welcome, as one of the new (yet still all too rare) explorations in architecture and urbanism which seek to operate from an interdisciplinary perspective, and, as such, comprehend the true difficulty of the life that we seek to comprehend and better. As such, it provides invaluable insights into aspects of what William Lim calls the 'non-West', that is into modernity globalization, technology, politics, and social organization ... it helps me to understand my London-based daily life, one which is composed of similarly complex (and often 'Asian') cultures, languages, peoples, hybrids, diasporas, fractional identities, and disparities of wealth. And the book suggests too that, of course, places like London are also part of the global condition of architectural and urban issues such as memories, public space, uncertainty, spatial justice and what William Lim memorably terms the 'Colonial Hangover' .Iain BordenProfessor of Architecture and Urban CultureBartlett School of ArchitectureUniversity College London There is nothing quite like Asian Alterity for its comprehensive and insightful perspective on Australasian urbanism, its creative recomposition of stubborn modernist binaries, its sensitive handling of difference and otherness, its effectively politicized interdisciplinarity, and its challenging ethical agenda for the city building professions and city dwellers everywhere. Edward W SojoProfessor of Urban Planning, andVisiting Centennial Professor of Sociology, School of Economics

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