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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... traffic problem ) . The small total amount of public space , one should also note , is not evenly distributed within a city . Because many municipal governments , both colonial and post - colonial , do not have a strong interest or ...
... traffic problem ) . The small total amount of public space , one should also note , is not evenly distributed within a city . Because many municipal governments , both colonial and post - colonial , do not have a strong interest or ...
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... leftover space between buildings , and the tiny open areas in front of important public buildings or at points where traffic converges ( see Chapter 1 ) . Sometimes a wall separates such a small node , often of a semi - public 14 P. MIAO.
... leftover space between buildings , and the tiny open areas in front of important public buildings or at points where traffic converges ( see Chapter 1 ) . Sometimes a wall separates such a small node , often of a semi - public 14 P. MIAO.
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... traffic corridor during business hours and as something else at night and weekends , such as a space for pasar malams ( traveling night markets ) in Southeast Asia or as festival parade routes , as described in Chapter 4. In the old ...
... traffic corridor during business hours and as something else at night and weekends , such as a space for pasar malams ( traveling night markets ) in Southeast Asia or as festival parade routes , as described in Chapter 4. In the old ...
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... traffic jams , and the need for large quantities of new public facil- ities and open space . These problems never occurred to 19th - century agricultural societies and cannot be addressed by traditional urban language . The narrow al ...
... traffic jams , and the need for large quantities of new public facil- ities and open space . These problems never occurred to 19th - century agricultural societies and cannot be addressed by traditional urban language . The narrow al ...
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... traffic noise make the visit even less attractive to most residents who use urban space to practice qigong and other quiet meditation exercises . All these mistakes call for localized design models ( such as numerous mini- ature squares ...
... traffic noise make the visit even less attractive to most residents who use urban space to practice qigong and other quiet meditation exercises . All these mistakes call for localized design models ( such as numerous mini- ature squares ...
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