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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... world and specializes in 20th - century Asia Pacific architecture . Norma I. Alarcon is an architect and an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Santo Tomas , Manila , the Philippines . She has written on the ...
... world and specializes in 20th - century Asia Pacific architecture . Norma I. Alarcon is an architect and an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Santo Tomas , Manila , the Philippines . She has written on the ...
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... world average . The worldwide effect of the 1997 Asian financial crisis supplied another evidence of the rising importance of the region to the global economy.9 The rapid economic and urban population growths have transformed Asia ...
... world average . The worldwide effect of the 1997 Asian financial crisis supplied another evidence of the rising importance of the region to the global economy.9 The rapid economic and urban population growths have transformed Asia ...
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... world , as long as we are aware of their limitations . One cannot understand the public places of a city without knowing their urban context . Let us first examine a few general characteristics of Asia Pacific cities , selected in terms ...
... world , as long as we are aware of their limitations . One cannot understand the public places of a city without knowing their urban context . Let us first examine a few general characteristics of Asia Pacific cities , selected in terms ...
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... World's Largest Cities , " in Robert Famighetti , ed . , The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1995 [ Mahwah , NJ : World Almanac , 1994 ] , p . 840. ) ( 2 ) LARGE CITIES In addition to being denser , more Asia Pacific cities have larger ...
... World's Largest Cities , " in Robert Famighetti , ed . , The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1995 [ Mahwah , NJ : World Almanac , 1994 ] , p . 840. ) ( 2 ) LARGE CITIES In addition to being denser , more Asia Pacific cities have larger ...
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Current Issues and Strategies Pu Miao. numbers for Europe , North America and the world average are 0 , 12.9 and 8.0 % respectively ) .28 The phenomenon occurs because of the massive total population in the region and the tendency of ...
Current Issues and Strategies Pu Miao. numbers for Europe , North America and the world average are 0 , 12.9 and 8.0 % respectively ) .28 The phenomenon occurs because of the massive total population in the region and the tendency of ...
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