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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... Taiwan and Singapore. The underlying logic for this definition is the shared Confucian base of culture among these nations, quite apart from more recent manifestations of other kinds of beliefs and socio-political orientations. Although ...
... Taiwan and Singapore. The underlying logic for this definition is the shared Confucian base of culture among these nations, quite apart from more recent manifestations of other kinds of beliefs and socio-political orientations. Although ...
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... Taiwan suddenly emerged on the world scene, to be followed by China in the late 1980s and '90s, with relatively sustained annual economic growth rates at or near 10 per cent of GDP, and larger and larger market shares of manufactured ...
... Taiwan suddenly emerged on the world scene, to be followed by China in the late 1980s and '90s, with relatively sustained annual economic growth rates at or near 10 per cent of GDP, and larger and larger market shares of manufactured ...
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... Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong followed Japan into double digits during the second half of the 1960s and into the '70s, with Hong Kong's high rates of expansion lasting, almost without interruption, into the early 1990s. China's ...
... Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong followed Japan into double digits during the second half of the 1960s and into the '70s, with Hong Kong's high rates of expansion lasting, almost without interruption, into the early 1990s. China's ...
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... Taiwan with 6.1 per cent and Hong Kong with 4.3 per cent. Only Japan fell below a comparable rate for the United States of 3.1 per cent, at 1.8 per cent.14 Advances in economic output per capita, a better measure of relative economic ...
... Taiwan with 6.1 per cent and Hong Kong with 4.3 per cent. Only Japan fell below a comparable rate for the United States of 3.1 per cent, at 1.8 per cent.14 Advances in economic output per capita, a better measure of relative economic ...
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... Taiwan were both significantly agricultural countries at the end of World War II, with 38 per cent and 32 per cent of their GDP earnings in agriculture, and even higher proportions in terms of labour. Korea now has only 4.0 per cent GDP ...
... Taiwan were both significantly agricultural countries at the end of World War II, with 38 per cent and 32 per cent of their GDP earnings in agriculture, and even higher proportions in terms of labour. Korea now has only 4.0 per cent GDP ...
Contents
Outside Influences and Urban Patterns | |
Urban Forms and Local Expressions | |
References | |
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