Asian alterity : with special reference to architecture and urbanism through the lens of cultural studies

Title: Asian alterity : with special reference to architecture and urbanism through the lens of cultural studies
Main Author: Lim, William Siew Wai, 1932-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific Pub. Co., 2007.


Table of contents:
Pt. I. Asian Alterity
Ch. 1. Introduction and the Rise of Asia
Ch. 2. Modernities
Ch. 3. Selected Cultural Studies
Ch. 4. Asian Architecture and Urbanism
What Others Say
Pt. II. Case Studies of Asian Cities
Introduction / William S. W. Lim
Comments on Workshop / Chua Beng Huat
Bangkok: A City in Flux / Kanika R’kul
Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon): Before the Doorstep of Global Assimilation / Tran Khang
Hong Kong: City of Maximum Quantities / Li Shiqiao
Istanbul: Observations / Tan Kay Ngee
The Melbourne Case Study: The Consultant Arrives (And Sees) ... / Leon van Schaik
Seoul: Gangnam Alternative Nature - the Experience of Nature Without Parks / Yoon-Jin Park and Jungyoon Kim
Shanghai Assessed: Six Architectural Nodes of the City / Eunice Seng, Wee H. Koon and Soh E. Keat
Singapore: In Search of Transparency / Kaw Jon Kher
Tokyo: An Urban Collage of Chaos Amidst Order / Takeo Muraji.
Subject(s): Architecture and society --Asia.
Urbanization --Asia.

Location: Swanston Library
Call Number: No call number available