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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... physical and site - specific dimensions of our subject ( e.g. , it is not about the economic " space " of a market network ) and to reflect our intention to study these settings not merely as physical forms , but also as milieus ...
... physical and site - specific dimensions of our subject ( e.g. , it is not about the economic " space " of a market network ) and to reflect our intention to study these settings not merely as physical forms , but also as milieus ...
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... Physical places of human scale , such as a street or market , remain absent in the discussions . Even when such a place was occasionally mentioned , the study usually focused on its history or political symbolism rather than its ...
... Physical places of human scale , such as a street or market , remain absent in the discussions . Even when such a place was occasionally mentioned , the study usually focused on its history or political symbolism rather than its ...
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... physical and cultural conditions laid out above , we are ready to analyze the public places in Asia Pacific cities . Colorful as the forms of these settings exhibit , they all share the following structural characteristics , many of ...
... physical and cultural conditions laid out above , we are ready to analyze the public places in Asia Pacific cities . Colorful as the forms of these settings exhibit , they all share the following structural characteristics , many of ...
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... physical and cultural characteristics of Asian cities , as described earlier , do not comfortably accommodate some aspects of modern design models that originated from the West . Can Western design ideas be " indigenized " ( as called ...
... physical and cultural characteristics of Asian cities , as described earlier , do not comfortably accommodate some aspects of modern design models that originated from the West . Can Western design ideas be " indigenized " ( as called ...
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... physical structures ( often of public functions ) resembling those in the West are erected as symbols to show that these poorer cities are " catching up " with the industrial world.87 Dictated by politicians or bureaucrats , these ...
... physical structures ( often of public functions ) resembling those in the West are erected as symbols to show that these poorer cities are " catching up " with the industrial world.87 Dictated by politicians or bureaucrats , these ...
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