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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... existing publications.70 Chapter 5 fills in the gap for this volume . Dwita Hadi Rahmi , Bambang Hari Wibisono , and Bakti Setiawan report on the public places in an informal urban community - the Indonesian kampung . Such communities ...
... existing publications.70 Chapter 5 fills in the gap for this volume . Dwita Hadi Rahmi , Bambang Hari Wibisono , and Bakti Setiawan report on the public places in an informal urban community - the Indonesian kampung . Such communities ...
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... existing large urban agglomerations and high dens- ities of Hong Kong , Tokyo and other similar Asian cities have created a dense , three - dimensional distribution of public facilities . Sidewalks , playgrounds , and nu- merous shops ...
... existing large urban agglomerations and high dens- ities of Hong Kong , Tokyo and other similar Asian cities have created a dense , three - dimensional distribution of public facilities . Sidewalks , playgrounds , and nu- merous shops ...
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... existing value and economic systems ( either traditional or socialist ones ) and the public services they have maintained disintegrate , while new ones are yet to be established . 104 It is odd to observe that existing public spaces ...
... existing value and economic systems ( either traditional or socialist ones ) and the public services they have maintained disintegrate , while new ones are yet to be established . 104 It is odd to observe that existing public spaces ...
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... existing provision of public space is drastically disproportionate to the territory's phenomenal wealth , in fact even worse than in the much poorer mainland Chinese cities . According to them , the pro - development culture in the ...
... existing provision of public space is drastically disproportionate to the territory's phenomenal wealth , in fact even worse than in the much poorer mainland Chinese cities . According to them , the pro - development culture in the ...
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... existing social and cultural differences between Asian and Western cities are diminishing . Aided by jet - plane travels and electronic mass media , contemporary Asian urban residents have been well exposed to and are quickly ...
... existing social and cultural differences between Asian and Western cities are diminishing . Aided by jet - plane travels and electronic mass media , contemporary Asian urban residents have been well exposed to and are quickly ...
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