Cross-Cultural Urban Design (eBook, PDF)

Global or Local Practice?
Redaktion: Bull, Catherin; Tapie, Guy; Radovic, Darko; Parin, Claire; Boontharm, Davisi

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Unprecedented in its scope, Cross-Cultural Urban Design explores how urban design has responded to recent trends towards global standardization. Following analysis of its practice in the local domain, the book looks at how urban planning and design should be repositioned for the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 269
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136792625
• Artikelnr.: 45132476

Autorenporträt

Catherin Bull, Davisi Boontharm, Claire Parin, Darko Radovic

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Cross-Cultural Practice: Why Experiment Now? Part 1:
Re-Conceptualizing the City: New Ways to Read Difference 1.1. Finding the
Identity of Place through Local Landscapes 1.2 Erasure, Layering,
Transformation, Absorption 1.3 between 'Asianization' and 'Cosmopolitanism'
Housing in 21st Century Singapore 1.4 Dissolved Identity and Disintegrated
Globalization 1.5 The Communal Project and the Reinforcement of Values 1.6
Urban Development and Context: The Traditional Landscape and Globalization
in Marrakech 1.7. The Urban Edge: Bangkok Soi as Mediators of the Global
and Local 1.8. Eco-Planning for Development in Northern Thailand 1.9. Local
Identity in Bangkok's Business Districts Part 2: Experiments in Practice -
The Dynamics of the Urban Design Project 2.1. Transparency in Sustainable
Development: Nonghan Basin, Thailand 2.2. Restructuring the Medina in
Tunis: El Hafsia 2.3. Garden Urbanism in China and New Zealand 2.4.
Revitalizing the Montenegrin Village 2.5 Strategies to Support Urban
Identity 2.6. Mediating Global and Local: The Montreal Experience 2.7. New
Practices in Urban Development 2.8. Sustainable Tourism for Local Identity:
The Hill-Tribe Villages of Northern Thailand 2.9. Making the City: The
Bordeaux Experience Part 3: Learning Cross-Cultural Urban Design -
Reflecting on Cross-Cultural Interactions 3.1 Casts, Roles and Scripts of
Otherness 3.2 Analysis, Concept and the Value of Words 3.3 Work and/or
Play? 3.4 Why Use English? 3.5. Sustainability Learnt from Difference 3.6.
Experiencing Cross-Cultural Practice 3.7. Workshops as Culture. Conclusion
Urban Design for a Cross-Cultural Future