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Five-foot ways, or ‘Kaki-Lima,’ are a prominent feature of historical urban centers in tropical Southeast Asian cities. In the hot and humid urban center, these colonnades along the rows of commercial shophouses provide comfortable pedestrian walkways. It is frequently considered not only as a pathway but also as a space for transit activities in Malaysian urban settings. The book begins with Kaki Lima stories from Southeast Asia, particularly from the countries bordering the Malacca Strait. The book investigates the five-footway as the generator of the public realm by illustrating how the physical attributes of the 31 businesses and establishments utilising the kaki lima contribute to the livability of downtown Kuala Lumpur.

Passage --- Aménagement urbain --- Architecture commerciale --- Voie urbaine --- Espace piétonnier --- Galerie marchande --- Circulation urbaine --- Kuala Lumpur

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duplicates available --- Malaysia = Malesia ( = Brunei, Indonesia, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Philippines ) --- current periodical --- nature --- quarterly --- societies --- Kuala Lumpur --- dead periodical

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Who is liable if self-spreading biotechnology causes transboundary harm? With engineered gene drives and similar techniques, the genes of wild-living species, pathogens, and crop plants can soon be modified directly in the environment. This might help address pressing public health, environmental, and food security problems. However, these techniques may also spread across national borders. Looking at both states and private actors, this book studies the rules of international law on the prevention of, and liability for, adverse transboundary effects caused by self-spreading biotechnology. Through an in-depth analysis of the relevant treaties and custom, it shows that international law is not yet equipped to cope with the challenges ahead.

LBB --- Biodiversity Compact, Biotechnologie, Cartagena-Protokoll, gene drives, Genomeditierung, Gewohnheitsrecht, living modified organisms, Malaria, Nagoya/Kuala-Lumpur-Haftungsprotokoll, Rechtsquellen des Völkerrechts, selbstausbreitende Biotechnologie, soft law, Staatenverantwortlichkeit, völkerrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit und Haftung beim grenzüberschreitenden Einsatz von Biotechnologie Völkerrechtliche Verträge, Cartagena Protocol, Convention on Biological Diversity, Genome Editing, HEGAAs, International Law, Liability, Prevention, State Responsibility, Transboundary Harm --- Biodiversity Compact, Biotechnologie, Cartagena-Protokoll, gene drives, Genomeditierung, Gewohnheitsrecht, living modified organisms, Malaria, Nagoya/Kuala-Lumpur-Haftungsprotokoll, Rechtsquellen des Völkerrechts, selbstausbreitende Biotechnologie, soft law, Staatenverantwortlichkeit, völkerrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit und Haftung beim grenzüberschreitenden Einsatz von Biotechnologie Völkerrechtliche Verträge, Cartagena Protocol, Convention on Biological Diversity, Genome Editing, HEGAAs, International Law, Liability, Prevention, State Responsibility, Transboundary Harm

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Few symbols in today’s world are as laden and fraught as sharia—an Arabic-origin term referring to the straight path, the path God revealed for humans, the norms and rules guiding Muslims on that path, and Islamic law and normativity as enshrined in sacred texts or formal statute. Yet the ways in which Muslim men and women experience the myriad dimensions of sharia often go unnoticed and unpublicized. So too do recent historical changes in sharia judiciaries and contemporary strategies on the part of political and religious elites, social engineers, and brand stewards to shape, solidify, and rebrand these institutions.Sharia Transformations is an ethnographic, historical, and theoretical study of the practice and lived entailments of sharia in Malaysia, arguably the most economically successful Muslim-majority nation in the world. The book focuses on the routine everyday practices of Malaysia’s sharia courts and the changes that have occurred in the court discourses and practices in recent decades. Michael G. Peletz approaches Malaysia’s sharia judiciary as a global assemblage and addresses important issues in the humanistic and social-scientific literature concerning how Malays and other Muslims engage ethical norms and deal with law, social justice, and governance in a rapidly globalizing world.

Islamic law --- Islamic law. --- Islam --- Islam and politics --- Islamic ethics --- Islam and politics. --- Social aspects --- anthropology. --- arabic. --- assemblage. --- bureaucratization. --- court. --- governance. --- history. --- islam. --- islamic law. --- islamization. --- judiciary. --- justice. --- kuala lumpur. --- law. --- legal system. --- malays. --- malaysia. --- muslim. --- nonfiction. --- piety. --- religion. --- religiosity. --- righteousness. --- sacred texts. --- sharia courts. --- sharia. --- sin. --- social justice. --- social science. --- sulh. --- virtue. --- west malaysia.

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This book explores how Malaysia, as a multicultural modern nation, has approached issues of nationalism and regionalism in terms of physical expression of the built environment. Ever since the nation’s post-Colonial era, architects and policy makers have grappled with the theoretical and practical outcomes of creating public architecture that effectively responds to traditions, nationhood and modernity. The authors compile and analyse prevailing ideas and strategies, present case studies in architectural language and form, and introduce the reader to tensions arising between a nationalist agenda and local ‘regionalist’ architectural language. These dichotomies represent the very nature of multicultural societies and issues with identity; a challenge that various nations across the globe face in a changing environment. This topical and pertinent volume will appeal to students and scholars of urban planning, architecture and the modern city.

Social sciences. --- Ethnology --- Urban geography. --- Architecture. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Human geography. --- Social Sciences. --- Human Geography. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Asian Culture. --- Cities, Countries, Regions. --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Asia. --- Design and construction --- Nationalism --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Ethnology-Asia. --- Ethnology—Asia. --- Architecture, Primitive --- Nationalisme et architecture -- Kuala Lumpur (Malaisie) --- Caractère national -- Kuala Lumpur (Malaisie) --- Colonialisme --- Milieu tropical --- Architecture vernaculaire --- Malaisie