Alternative (post)modernity : an Asian perspective

Author Lim, William Siew Wai, 1932-

Title Alternative (post)modernity : an Asian perspective / William S.W. Lim ; introduction by John Phillips.

Published Singapore : Select Pub., 2003.

UniM Archit 303.4 LIM

Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-173) and index.

Subject Social change.

Culture.

Globalization.

Urbanization -- Asia.

Architecture -- Asia.

Postmodernism.

Asian urbanization : a Hong Kong casebook

Title Asian urbanization : a Hong Kong casebook / editor D.J. Dwyer.

Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press for the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong ; [London] : Distributed by Oxford University Press, 1971.

UniM Archit 711.591 DWY

UniM Baill 301.36 D993

Series Series / University of Hong Kong. Centre of Asian Studies ; no.3

Series (University of Hong Kong. Centre of Asian Studies) ; no.3.

Notes Asia. Urbanisation. Study regions: Hong Kong. Essays (BNB/PRECIS)

'Some of the contributions ... were originally given at a series of seminars on problems of urbanization held in the Centre of Asian Studies of the University of Hong Kong [in 1968].' - bookjacket.

Bibliog. Includes bibliographies and index.

Other auth Dwyer, D. J. (Denis John), 1933-.

Subject Urbanization -- China -- Hong Kong.

Asian metropolis : urbanisation and the Southeast Asian city

Author Forbes, D. K. (Dean Keith), 1949-

Title Asian metropolis : urbanisation and the Southeast Asian city / Dean Forbes.

Published Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Series Meridian, Australian geographical perspectives

Notes Includes index.

Bibliog. Bibliography: p. 109-116.

Contents 1. The Southeast Asian city in history -- 2. The city after independence -- 3. Economic reform and urbanisation -- 4. The economic life of the metropolis -- 5. Urban society and the environment -- 6. The expanding urban region -- 7. Southeast Asia's urban prospects.

Summary From vietnam to Indonesia, Singapore to Thailand, Southeast Asia's economies are growing at unprecedented rates. The metropolises are the heart of economically dynamic Southeast Asia. Singapore is bidding to be a global 'information city'; Bangkok is acquiring an international reputation as a business and transport centre; Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur have rapidly expanding core business centres dominated by sleek, highrise office blocks; and Ho Chi Minh City is certain to play a key role in Vietnam's re-emergence into the world economy.

Yet this high-profile image presents only one dimension of the Southeast Asian metropolis. This book penetrates the facade of contemporary growth, exploring the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial city. Asian Metropolis: Urbanisation and the Southeast Asian City describes the divergence of the urbanisation process and urban development under capitalist and socialist regimes, and the gradual convergence in the 1990s. It looks at the problems in the fast growing metropolis, from the exploitation of women in the labour force, to the over-stretched infrastructure and urban environmental crises. Southeast Asia's metropolises have played a key role in the region's growth. Unless greater attention is given to the sustainability of these large, complex settlements, they threaten to undermine the societies that created and continue to depend upon them.

Subject Cities and towns -- Southeast Asia.

Urbanization -- Southeast Asia.

Managing urban futures : sustainability and urban growth in developing countries

Title Managing urban futures : sustainability and urban growth in developing countries / edited by Marco Keiner, Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr, Willy A. Schmid.

Published Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.

UniM Archit 307.121609172 MANA

Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-269) and index.

Contents Foreword : managing the future city / Gordon McGranahan -- Introduction / Marco Keiner, Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr and Willy A. Schmid -- Asian urbanization and local and global environmental challenges / Hans J.A. van Ginkel and Peter J. Marcotullio -- Sustaining urban development in Latin America in an unpredictable world / Alan Gilbert -- The urban challenge in Africa / Carole Rakodi -- The global city : strategic site, new frontier / Saskia Sassen -- A question of boundaries : planning and Asian urban transitions / Michael Leaf -- Shifting drivers of change, time-space telescoping and urban environmental transitions in Asia Pacific regions / Peter J. Marcotullio -- Civil society revisited : travels in Latin America and China / John Friedmann --

State and urban space in Brazil : from modernist planning to democratic interventions / Teresa Caldeira and James Holston -- The chronic poor in Rio de Janeiro : what has changed in 30 years? / Janice E. Perlman -- Unsustainable trends in spatial development in China : situation analysis and exploration of alternative development paths demonstrated by case studies of Kunming ‪(urban‪) and Shaxi Valley ‪(rural‪) / Jacques P. Feiner and Diego Salmerón -- Sustaining cosmopolis : managing multicultural cities / Leonie Sandercock -- Towards gigapolis? : from urban growth to evolutionable medium-sized cities / Marco Keiner -- Urban planning in the North -- blueprint for the South? / Klaus R. Kunzmann.

Net info Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip058/2005003240.html

Other auth Keiner, Marco, 1963-

Koll-Schretzenmayr, Martina, 1967-

Schmid, Willy A.

Subject City planning -- Developing countries.

Urbanization -- Developing countries.

Urban ecology -- Developing countries.

Urban design futures

/ edited by Malcolm Moor and Jon Rowland.

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Contents Prologue : city planning / Bernard O'Donoghue -- 1. Territories of urban design / Alex Krieger -- 2. Globalising urban design / Tony Lloyd-Jones -- 3. It's sprawl, but it's MY sprawl / Harriet Tregoning -- 4. Civitas : traditional urbanism in contemporary practice / Paul Murrain -- 5. The planning system and the delivery of design quality / John Punter -- 6. The ART of city building / David Rudlin -- 7. Life, spaces, buildings - and in said order, please / Jan Gehl -- 8. The insecurity of urbanism / Tim Stonor -- 9. The street / Adriaan Geuze -- 10. Asian commercialism and the discovery of place : the Lan Kwai Fong story / Alex Lui -- 11. The social dimension of urban design / Ken Worpole -- 12. Men shouldn't decide everything : women and the public realm / Mardie Townsend -- 13. Post modern movement : the 'inscribed' city / Alain Cousseran -- 14. Animal urbanism and homeopethic architecture / Lucien Kroll -- 15. What is the 'new ordinary'? / Bill Dunster -- 16. A vertical theory of urban design / Ken Yeang -- 17. The brand new authentic retail experience : the commercialization of urban design / Richard Rees -- 18. Place, experience, movement / Andrew Cross -- 19. Lower Lea Valley olympic and legacy masterplans / Jason Prior -- 20. Giving meaning to the experience economy / John Worthington -- 21. Ground zero / Thom Mayne -- Conclusion : urban design futures / Jon Rowland.

Summary "Urban Design Futures puts forward a series of provocative scenarios for the directions in which urban design could evolve. These scenarios take the form of a series of 'think-pieces' on different aspects of urban design by leading practitioners and theorists. Essays from an international group of authors review progress and explore emerging ideas. Should urban design anticipate the future rather than recreate the past? What are the new driving forces that will shape urban living and urban design in the future? This book explores new concepts and points the way towards a series of urban design paradigms for the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.

Other auth Moor, Malcolm. Rowland, Jon.

UniM Archit 307.1216 URBA

Re-EvaluatingStreet Vendors in Asian Cities and Asian Urbanism

Re-EvaluatingStreet Vendors in Asian Cities and Asian Urbanism
http://www.apsa2005.net/FullPapers/PdfFormat/Full%20Paper%20(A-H)/Atsushi%20Deguchi.pdf
*very good research paper on Asian Street Vendors

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A theory of indigenous Southeast Asian urbanism

Author O'Connor, Richard A.
Title A theory of indigenous Southeast Asian urbanism / by Richard A. O'Connor.
Published Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1983.

Phys desc vii, 132 p. ; 23 cm.
Series Research notes and discussions paper / Institute of Southeast Asian studies ; no. 38
Research notes and discussions paper ; no. 38.
Bibliog. Bibliography: p. 120-132.
Other auth Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

Subject Urban policy -- Southeast Asia.
Community development, Urban -- Southeast Asia.
Sociology, Urban -- Southeast Asia.
ISBN 9971902613

LOCATION UniM Baill
CALL NO 307.760959 OCON

Location: Swanston Library
Call Number: 307.760959 O18

Southeast Asian urbanism : the meaning and power of social space

Author Evers, Hans-Dieter.
Title Southeast Asian urbanism : the meaning and power of social space / Hans-Dieter Evers, Rüdiger Korff.
Published Münster : Lit Verlage ; New York : St. Martin's Press, ; Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2000.

Phys desc: viii, 268 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-267) and index.
Other auth: Korff, Rüdiger.
Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

Subject: Urbanization -- Southeast Asia.
Urban policy -- Southeast Asia.
Social structure -- Southeast Asia.
Social classes -- Southeast Asia.
Women in development -- Southeast Asia.
Southeast Asia -- Social conditions.
ISBN 031223628X (cloth : North America)
3825840212 (Germany)
9812301011 (pbk : Singapore)
9812301011
031223628X (cloth)

LOCATION UniM Baill
CALL NO 307.7609598 EVER

Architecture, art, identity in Singapore : is there life after tabula rasa

Title: Architecture, art, identity in Singapore : is there life after tabula rasa /
Main Author: Lim, William Siew Wai, 1932-
Publisher: Singapore : Asian Urban Lab, c2004.

ISBN/ISSN: 9810515340
Description: p. cm.

Subject(s): Architecture --Singapore.
Architecture --Singapore --History.
Urbanization --Singapore.

Location: Swanston Library
Call Number: 724.6095957 L732

Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as text : urban landscapes, cultural documents, and interpretative experiences

Title: Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as text : urban landscapes, cultural documents, and interpretative experiences /
Publisher: Singapore : World Scientific Pub., c2003.

Other Author(s): Goh, Robbie B. H., 1964-
Yeoh, Brenda S. A.

Table of contents: Urbanism and post-colonial nationalities: theorizing the Southeast Asian city / Robbie B.H. Goh and Brenda S.A. Yeoh (p. 1-12)
Reading the Southeast Asian city in the context of rapid economic growth / Tan Kheng Soon with Robbie B.H. Goh (p. 13-28)
"The rise of the merlion": monuments and myth in the making of the Singapore story / Brenda S.A. Yeoh and T.C. Chang (p. 29-50)
Things to a void: Utopian discourse, communality and constructed interstices in Singapore public housing / Robbie B.H. Goh (p. 51-76)
Selective disclosure: romancing the Singapore river / Shirlena Huang and T.C. Chang (p. 77-108)
Malaysia’s high-tech cities and the construction of intelligent citizenship / Tim Bunnell (p. 109-134)
Museum/City/Nation: negotiating identities in urban museums in Indonesia and Singapore / Kathleen M. Adams (p. 135-158)
The urban and the urbane: modernization, modernism and the rebirth of Singapore cinema / Anthony R. Guneratne (p. 159-190)
Benjamin in Bombay? an Asian extrapolation / Rajeev Patke (p. 191-213).B°
Subject(s): Cities and towns --Southeast Asia.
Urbanization --Southeast Asia.
Urbanization --Singapore.
City planning --Southeast Asia.
City planning --Singapore.

Location: Swanston Library
Call Number: 307.760959 G614

Postcolonial urbanism : Southeast Asian cities and global processes

Title: Postcolonial urbanism : Southeast Asian cities and global processes /
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2003.

Other Author(s): Bishop, Ryan.
Phillips, John.
Yeo, Wei-Wei.


Table of contents: 1. Perpetuating Cities: Excepting Globalization and the Southeast Asia Supplement / Ryan Bishop, John Phillips and Wei-Wei Yeo
2. Global Cities, Terror, and Tourism: The Ambivalent Allure of the Urban Jungle / Kathleen M. Adams
3. The City as Target, or Perpetuation and Death / Ryan Bishop and Gregory Clancey
4. From the Hypermodern City to the Gray Zone of Total Mobilization in the Philippines / John Armitage and Joanne Roberts
5. Urban Space in the French Imperial Past and the Postcolonial Present.
Subject(s): Urbanization --Asia, Southeastern.
Cities and towns --Asia, Southeastern.
Globalization.

Location: Swanston Library
Call Number: 307.760959 P857

Enduring innocence : global architecture and its political masquerades

Title: Enduring innocence : global architecture and its political masquerades /
Main Author: Easterling, Keller, 1959-
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2005.

"In Enduring Innocence, Keller Easterling tells the stories of outlaw "spatial products" - resorts, information technology campuses, retail chains, golf courses, ports, and other hybrid spaces that exist outside normal constituencies and jurisdictions - in difficult political situations around the world. These spaces - familiar commercial formulas of retail, business, and trade - aspire to be worlds unto themselves, self-reflexive and innocent of politics. But as Easterling shows, these enclaves can become political pawns and objects of contention. Jurisdictionally ambiguous, they are imbued with myths, desires, and symbolic capital. Their hilarious and dangerous masquerades often mix quite easily with the cunning of political platforms. Easterling argues that the study of such "real estate cocktails" provides vivid evidence of the market’s weakness, resilience, or violence."
"Enduring Innocence collects six stories of spatial products and their political predicaments: cruise ship tourism in North Korea; high-tech agricultural formations in Spain (which have reignited labor wars and piracy in the Mediterranean); hyperbolic forms of sovereignty in commercial and spiritual organizations shared by gurus and golf celebrities; automated global ports; microwave urbanism in South Asian IT enclaves; and the global industry of building demolition that suggests urban warfare. These regimes of non-national sovereignty, writes Easterling, "move around the world like weather fronts"; she focuses not on their blending - their global connectivity - but on their segregation and the cultural collisions that ensue."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject(s): Architecture --Social aspects.
Architecture and globalization.
Architecture --Political aspects.

Location: Swanston Library
Call Number: 720.103 E13

Asian ethical urbanism : a radical postmodern perspective

Title: Asian ethical urbanism : a radical postmodern perspective /
Main Author: Lim, William Siew Wai, 1932-
Publisher: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing, c2005.

“؟Lim lends a determinedly spatialist and environmental perspective to issues such as rights, ethics, happiness and social justice, while compelling his readers to rethink previously established notions about them. Part II of this book consists of three city studies on Hanoi, Shanghai and Singapore, completed in the last two years, which attempt to match Lim's theoretical formulation with actual conditions occurring in Asia today. Also included is “Asian Architecture in the New Millennium”, a fascinating discourse on contemporary design conducted from a postmodern perspective.”

Subject(s): City planning --Asia.
City planning --Asia --Case studies.

Location: Swanston Library
Call Number: 307.76095 L732

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