East Asia Modern: Shaping the Contemporary CityReaktion Books, 2005 M08 15 - 224 pages An exciting explosion of urban expansion is occurring in East Asia: cities such as Singapore, Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing, and Shanghai are expanding at a prodigious rate and bringing widespread change to the region. Peter G. Rowe's East Asia Modern is a timely comparative analysis of urban growth in this rapidly evolving part of the globe. A renowned scholar on East Asian architecture and urbanism, Peter G. Rowe examines how the unique modernizing process of East Asian cities can be most usefully understood. Rowe offers a historical assessment of the region, chronicling the cities' development over the last century and setting into context their individual paths toward becoming modern. Rowe explains what the modernizing process has meant for the cultural diffusion of predominantly Western ideas, how East Asian urban regions have developed a distinct type of modernity, and what lessons can be gleaned from the contemporary East Asian experience. Refuting many common misconceptions about contemporary East Asian life, East Asia Modern offers a readable critical assessment of life in modern East Asia while also pointing to possibilities for the future. |
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... Shanghai, and the enormous spans reached in southern Japan. Then, too, there is the exotic otherness of the Orient, often regarded from within and without with a certain nostalgia for the past and for tradition. Amid the hurly burly of ...
... Shanghai, and the enormous spans reached in southern Japan. Then, too, there is the exotic otherness of the Orient, often regarded from within and without with a certain nostalgia for the past and for tradition. Amid the hurly burly of ...
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... Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei and Singapore. More than others, these cities have come to epitomize the East Asian development phenomenon and contemporary urbanization, certainly from the standpoint of outside perceptions, as well as being ...
... Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei and Singapore. More than others, these cities have come to epitomize the East Asian development phenomenon and contemporary urbanization, certainly from the standpoint of outside perceptions, as well as being ...
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Shaping the Contemporary City Peter Rowe. in Beijing and in Shanghai has a similar impact on urbanization and urban-architectural expression in China. Following the analogy of lenses with different focal lengths, the second chapter of ...
Shaping the Contemporary City Peter Rowe. in Beijing and in Shanghai has a similar impact on urbanization and urban-architectural expression in China. Following the analogy of lenses with different focal lengths, the second chapter of ...
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... Shanghai and Beijing, although large cities at over 12 million and 13 million inhabitants respectively, account for only about 1 per cent of China's population each, or around 3 per cent of its total urban population. Singular ...
... Shanghai and Beijing, although large cities at over 12 million and 13 million inhabitants respectively, account for only about 1 per cent of China's population each, or around 3 per cent of its total urban population. Singular ...
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... Shanghai, Beijing or other major Chinese cities; they might be said to exert a more roundabout influence on China's national population, vis-à-vis being urban. Nevertheless, both Shanghai and Beijing seem to have a similar urban ...
... Shanghai, Beijing or other major Chinese cities; they might be said to exert a more roundabout influence on China's national population, vis-à-vis being urban. Nevertheless, both Shanghai and Beijing seem to have a similar urban ...
Contents
Outside Influences and Urban Patterns | |
Urban Forms and Local Expressions | |
References | |
Bibliography | |
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