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Ideas of the City in Asian Settings / ed. by Henco Bekkering, Adèle Esposito, Charles Goldblum.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Asian Cities ; 10Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) : 114 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789462985612
  • 9789048536764
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76095
LOC classification:
  • HT147.A2 I34 2019
  • HT147.A2
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- 1. Introduction -- Part 1. Images and Symbols -- 2. The Spectral Coloniality of Calcutta's Ochterlony -- 3. 'Centering' the City -- 4. Transitions -- 5. Global Dynamics and Tropes of Place -- Part 2. Tales of the City -- 6. A City for All -- 7. A World Garden City in the New Millennium -- 8. Delhi Incognita -- Part 3. Political and Urban Discourses -- 9. The Physical Manifestation of Political Ideologies in Ali Sadikin's Jakarta (1966-1977) -- 10. Religious Gentrification: Islam and the Remaking of Urban Place in Jakarta -- 11. Invisible Technologies and Loud Narratives -- 12. Changing ideas of Hanoi -- 13. Conclusion -- Index
Summary: This book explores the multiple and changing ideas, concepts, and representations that shape contemporary cities in Asia in a historical perspective. It does so by using multiple sources, objects (architecture, planning, spaces and practices), and methods of inquiry. At a time when intense dynamics of urban development of Asian cities puzzle and disorient, Ideas of the City in Asian Settings offers knowledge about the ideas that lay beneath the historical and contemporary production of cities in Asia, in order to deepen our understanding of the processes and meanings of urban development in the continent. The book sheds more light on the vast array of rules and perspectives that make cities into complex objects that are continuously 'in the making'. Because Asian cities have experienced unprecedented dynamics of urban development during the last fifty years, they are considered as crucial places to question the aspirations that multiple actors project onto changing urban environments, as well as the evolution of the role of cities in globalisation.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- 1. Introduction -- Part 1. Images and Symbols -- 2. The Spectral Coloniality of Calcutta's Ochterlony -- 3. 'Centering' the City -- 4. Transitions -- 5. Global Dynamics and Tropes of Place -- Part 2. Tales of the City -- 6. A City for All -- 7. A World Garden City in the New Millennium -- 8. Delhi Incognita -- Part 3. Political and Urban Discourses -- 9. The Physical Manifestation of Political Ideologies in Ali Sadikin's Jakarta (1966-1977) -- 10. Religious Gentrification: Islam and the Remaking of Urban Place in Jakarta -- 11. Invisible Technologies and Loud Narratives -- 12. Changing ideas of Hanoi -- 13. Conclusion -- Index

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This book explores the multiple and changing ideas, concepts, and representations that shape contemporary cities in Asia in a historical perspective. It does so by using multiple sources, objects (architecture, planning, spaces and practices), and methods of inquiry. At a time when intense dynamics of urban development of Asian cities puzzle and disorient, Ideas of the City in Asian Settings offers knowledge about the ideas that lay beneath the historical and contemporary production of cities in Asia, in order to deepen our understanding of the processes and meanings of urban development in the continent. The book sheds more light on the vast array of rules and perspectives that make cities into complex objects that are continuously 'in the making'. Because Asian cities have experienced unprecedented dynamics of urban development during the last fifty years, they are considered as crucial places to question the aspirations that multiple actors project onto changing urban environments, as well as the evolution of the role of cities in globalisation.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)