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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... become salient not when these cities are compared with each other , but when they are contrasted with other groups , such as Western cities . Categorization and comparison remain powerful tools for human beings to com- prehend the world ...
... become salient not when these cities are compared with each other , but when they are contrasted with other groups , such as Western cities . Categorization and comparison remain powerful tools for human beings to com- prehend the world ...
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... beach , a place type alien to the inward , tight- knitted urban tradition in Asia , has now become part of the popular vocabulary of civic form . To show the unique roles traditional public space plays in INTRODUCTION 17.
... beach , a place type alien to the inward , tight- knitted urban tradition in Asia , has now become part of the popular vocabulary of civic form . To show the unique roles traditional public space plays in INTRODUCTION 17.
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... become part of an inevitable situation in many Asia Pacific cities today due to huge rural emigration into the cities . The authors demonstrate that traditional values , such as tolerance toward shared uses and cooperation among ...
... become part of an inevitable situation in many Asia Pacific cities today due to huge rural emigration into the cities . The authors demonstrate that traditional values , such as tolerance toward shared uses and cooperation among ...
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... become more sensitive to tiny differences in locality , or by the nationalist calls of some Asia Pacific governments which want to import techno- logy instead of culture from the West . Regardless of the cause , the yearning for a local ...
... become more sensitive to tiny differences in locality , or by the nationalist calls of some Asia Pacific governments which want to import techno- logy instead of culture from the West . Regardless of the cause , the yearning for a local ...
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... becomes a prob- lem when inappropriate design models prevent the few facilities from being prop- erly located . In recent decades economically successful Asian Pacific cities built plazas and parks imitating the Embarcadero Center in ...
... becomes a prob- lem when inappropriate design models prevent the few facilities from being prop- erly located . In recent decades economically successful Asian Pacific cities built plazas and parks imitating the Embarcadero Center in ...
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