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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... road grids and transplanted European town squares , or one or two modern CBDs of glass towers and large plazas . Such a juxtaposition of different formal systems generates richness and opportunity in public space design , but it also ...
... road grids and transplanted European town squares , or one or two modern CBDs of glass towers and large plazas . Such a juxtaposition of different formal systems generates richness and opportunity in public space design , but it also ...
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... road systems or segregated mass transit ( see Chapter 12 on Bangkok's traffic problem ) . The small total amount of public space , one should also note , is not evenly distributed within a city . Because many municipal governments ...
... road systems or segregated mass transit ( see Chapter 12 on Bangkok's traffic problem ) . The small total amount of public space , one should also note , is not evenly distributed within a city . Because many municipal governments ...
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... road system to conquer problems such as the inaccessible superblocks in Bangkok . In Chapter 13 , Pu Miao looks at the unique problems related to high - density and linear public space , two common characteristics of Chinese and other ...
... road system to conquer problems such as the inaccessible superblocks in Bangkok . In Chapter 13 , Pu Miao looks at the unique problems related to high - density and linear public space , two common characteristics of Chinese and other ...
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... roads and the unrealized mass - transit system as factors which worsened investors ' confidence in Thailand's finan ... Road to Recovery ( Washington , DC : The World Bank , 1998 ) , p . 114 . 10 Kris Olds , " Globalizing Shanghai : The ...
... roads and the unrealized mass - transit system as factors which worsened investors ' confidence in Thailand's finan ... Road to Recovery ( Washington , DC : The World Bank , 1998 ) , p . 114 . 10 Kris Olds , " Globalizing Shanghai : The ...
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... Road : Small Stores and Neighborhood Life in Modern Shanghai , " Journal of Asian Studies , Vol . 54 , No. 1 ( February 1995 ) , p . 96 . 32 Roger Mark Selya , Taipei ( Chichester , UK : John Wiley & Sons , 1995 ) , pp . 36–37 ; Ken ...
... Road : Small Stores and Neighborhood Life in Modern Shanghai , " Journal of Asian Studies , Vol . 54 , No. 1 ( February 1995 ) , p . 96 . 32 Roger Mark Selya , Taipei ( Chichester , UK : John Wiley & Sons , 1995 ) , pp . 36–37 ; Ken ...
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