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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... Activities in Hanoi 151 André Casault 8. The Quest for Better Public Space : A Critical Review of Urban Hong Kong Charlie Q.L. Xue and Kevin K.K. Manuel 9. Public Domain , Private Interest - Social Space in Hong Kong Alexander R ...
... Activities in Hanoi 151 André Casault 8. The Quest for Better Public Space : A Critical Review of Urban Hong Kong Charlie Q.L. Xue and Kevin K.K. Manuel 9. Public Domain , Private Interest - Social Space in Hong Kong Alexander R ...
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... activities of Asian urbanites.58 As one writer observed on Tokyo , " it sometimes seems that at any given time during the day or evening , one - half of the city's population is out shopping or sitting in some restaurant or coffee shop ...
... activities of Asian urbanites.58 As one writer observed on Tokyo , " it sometimes seems that at any given time during the day or evening , one - half of the city's population is out shopping or sitting in some restaurant or coffee shop ...
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... activities . Shop owners extend the display of their merchandise into the sidewalks near their storefronts , while restaurants and workshops use the alleys outside of their back doors for work and storage purposes.64 While ...
... activities . Shop owners extend the display of their merchandise into the sidewalks near their storefronts , while restaurants and workshops use the alleys outside of their back doors for work and storage purposes.64 While ...
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... activities , for their Western origins . If the debate on the formal identity aims at the preservation of historical images , the search for the functional one often leads to not only the fulfilment of practical needs , but also the ...
... activities , for their Western origins . If the debate on the formal identity aims at the preservation of historical images , the search for the functional one often leads to not only the fulfilment of practical needs , but also the ...
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... activities.90 The recent years have seen a trend in the peripheries of Asian metropolitan areas that mimics the American suburban development of freestanding single - family homes complete with sprawling one - story strip malls ...
... activities.90 The recent years have seen a trend in the peripheries of Asian metropolitan areas that mimics the American suburban development of freestanding single - family homes complete with sprawling one - story strip malls ...
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