Public Places in Asia Pacific Cities: Current Issues and StrategiesPu Miao Springer Science & Business Media, 2001 M08 31 - 392 pages PUMIAO 1. The Subject Matter: Urban Public Places 2. The Location: Asia Pacific Region 3. The Purpose of the'"Book: For the Makers of Public Places 4. The Three Perspectives of the Book: Description, Criticism, and Intervention 5. Perspective One: Characteristics of Asia Pacific Cities and Their Public Places (1) High Population Density (2) Large Cities (3) Mixed Uses (4) Government-Centered and Pro-Development Culture (5) The East-versus-West Bipolarity (6) Small Amount of Public Space (7) Absence of Large Nodes and Overall Structure in Public Space (8) Intensive Use of Public Space (9) Ambiguous Boundary between the Public and the Private Summaries of Chapters 1-5 6. Perspective Two: Current Issues and Debates (1) Identity Formal Identity Functional Identity (2) Sustainability High-Tech versus Low-Tech High-Density versus Low-Density (3) Equality Equal Participation Equal Accessibility Summaries of Chapters 6-9 7. Perspective Three: Major Trends in Design and Theory (1) The "Grey" Relationship between the Public and the Private (2) The Transformation of Traditional Typology (3) Indigenous Decoration, Color and Material in New Applications (4) The Tropical Public Place Summaries of Chapters 10-17 8. Conclusion Pu Miao (ed. ), Public Places in Asia Pacific Cities, 1-45. © 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2 P. MIAO 1. The Subject Matter: Urban Public Places A visitor to Kuala Lumpur will hardly forget the experience of strolling among the fragrant fruits sold under the overhang of the five-foot walkway during a tropical downfall. |
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... internationally . Gary Hack is the Dean and Paley Professor of the Graduate School of Fine Arts , University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , USA . In addition to his publications , he has been responsible for numerous urban design ...
... internationally . Gary Hack is the Dean and Paley Professor of the Graduate School of Fine Arts , University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia , USA . In addition to his publications , he has been responsible for numerous urban design ...
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... international scholastic journals , he also practices architecture and urban design in China . Dwita Hadi Rahmi teaches at the Department of Architecture , Faculty of Engin- eering , Gadjah Mada University , Yogyakarta , Indonesia ...
... international scholastic journals , he also practices architecture and urban design in China . Dwita Hadi Rahmi teaches at the Department of Architecture , Faculty of Engin- eering , Gadjah Mada University , Yogyakarta , Indonesia ...
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... International Sym- posium on Asia Pacific Architecture since 1995 , with the 1997 symposium devoted to " The Making of Public Places . " Coauthored by selected contributors from the 1997 Symposium , this volume is intended to fill the ...
... International Sym- posium on Asia Pacific Architecture since 1995 , with the 1997 symposium devoted to " The Making of Public Places . " Coauthored by selected contributors from the 1997 Symposium , this volume is intended to fill the ...
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... International - styled shopping malls . But they are perceived by local societies as expressions of different stages in their own transforming culture . This is not so in many Asia Pacific cities where the Western urban forms have been ...
... International - styled shopping malls . But they are perceived by local societies as expressions of different stages in their own transforming culture . This is not so in many Asia Pacific cities where the Western urban forms have been ...
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... international model at a much deeper level ( e.g. , plan layouts , climate considerations , etc. ) . How relev- ant are Disneyland - like historic facades to the genuine identity of a contemporary Asian public place ? Is it impossible ...
... international model at a much deeper level ( e.g. , plan layouts , climate considerations , etc. ) . How relev- ant are Disneyland - like historic facades to the genuine identity of a contemporary Asian public place ? Is it impossible ...
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