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Architectures et villes de l'Asie contemporaine : héritages et projets

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Les cultures spatiales des villes d'Asie sont approchées ici du point de vue de leurs singularités et spécificités, tant historiques que contemporaines, dans la conception et la transformation de leurs formes architecturales et urbaines. Dans cette aire géographique et culturelle, la période actuelle est marquée par des accélérations de l'urbanisation et des changements dimensionnels qui modifient l'importance relative du peuplement urbain, l'étendue des espaces construits et l'échelle des projets architecturaux et urbains. Dans ce contexte, qu'en est-il de la place et du rôle des héritages, visibles, enfouis ou imaginés, dans les manières de concevoir et de produire les villes ? À travers des exemples situés en Chine, au Japon, au Vietnam et à Bali, les textes réunis dans cet ouvrage abordent des situations passées et présentes à la lumière d'échanges culturels et de médiations entre héritages et projets qui seraient à l'origine d'expressions originales d'une modernité contextualisée à l'échelle locale. Les auteurs s'appuient sur l'étude de projets architecturaux et urbains qui composent avec les héritages et créent des éléments de différenciation entre les villes. Ces projets sont appréhendés à travers leurs mécanismes de conception, de production et de réception par les sociétés et leurs acteurs - habitants, usagers et hommes de l'art. Leur analyse permet de suivre la circulation des composantes d'une culture spatiale donnée, leurs réceptions croisées et leurs métissages à l'oeuvre dans les processus de transformation de l'espace - bien souvent source d'invention et d'innovation.


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The grand project : understanding the making and impact of urban megaprojects
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ISBN: 9789462084803 9462084807 9789462085084 Year: 2019 Publisher: Rotterdam nai010 Publishers

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Urban Megaprojects - here referred to as 'Grand Projects' - are increasing in number all over the world. They have become major drivers for urban intensification and oftentimes set out to take a city expansion to the next level. As such, 'Grand Projects' can be read as manifestations of the larger economic and political agenda of their city and they offer a productive moment to investigate current urban trends in a globally connected form of concentrated urbanization. The book looks into the adaptive and inclusive capacities that urban megaprojects can offer. It provides a new and for the first time comprehensive reading of selected urban megaprojects in Asia and Europe, and a comparative view of key moments regarding their role in contemporary urban development.


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European and Asian sustainable towns : new towns and satellite cities in their metropolises
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ISBN: 287574187X 9782875741875 Year: 2014 Publisher: Bruxelles Bern Berlin [etc.] P.I.E. Peter Lang

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Handbook of religion and the Asian city : aspiration and urbanization in the twenty-first century
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ISBN: 9780520961081 0520961080 9780520281226 0520281225 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oakland, California University of California Press

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"Handbook of Religion and the Asian City highlights the creative and innovative role of urban aspirations in Asian world cities. It points out that urban politics and governance are often about religious boundaries and processions--in short, that public religion is politics. The essays show how projects of secularism come up against projects and ambitions of a religious nature, a particular form of contestation that takes the city as its public arena. Asian cities are sites of speculation, not only for those who invest in real estate but also for those who look for housing, for employment, and for salvation. In its potential and actual mobility, the sacred creates social space in which they all can meet. Handbook of Religion and the Asian City makes the comparative case that one cannot study the historical patterns of urbanization in Asia without paying attention to the role of religion in urban aspirations"--Provided by publisher.


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High-rise living in Asian cities
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ISBN: 9048197376 9786613083036 9048197384 1283083035 Year: 2011 Publisher: Dordrecht [Netherlands] : Springer,

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This book is intended to fill a knowledge gap in the study of contemporary high-rise living. While there has been much documentation on the engineering and technological aspects of tall buildings, relatively little has been written about the social and livability of high-rise. Much less is written about Asian cities even though Asia is the current hotbed of high-rise development. Even though traditional discourse of high-rise housing is not always positive, new forces are redefining its place in 21st century urbanity. Many cities around the world are reembracing high-rise in urban agenda under current narrative of sustainable development. High-rise is fast becoming a priority area in international research agenda. The quest is for livable and sustainable high-rise development. Against the background of current trends--globalization, urbanization, mixed-use development, and new-built taller buildings in inner city areas in both developed and developing countries, this book examines the software: design, economics, estate management, legal and property rights, physical environment, planning, community development, and social dimensions of high-rise living. Analysis is with the widely acclaimed successful high-rise public housing in Hong Kong and Singapore to understand the advantages and worries of high-rise living, and to distill the key points and lessons in the making of a ‘good’ highrise living environment. Hong Kong and Singapore have been constructing high-rise for more than four decades each. The majority of their population has moved to live in high-rise, selecting to live high-rise, and registering consistently high residential satisfaction. The height of apartment buildings in both cities continues to rise. The tallest is anticipated to be 70-storey. It is the contention of this book that contrary to earlier common negative discourses on public high-rise living, the high-rise environment may yet offer urban residents a satisfying dwelling experience. Leading housing academics, researchers and practitioners in the two cities have contributed to this book. This book presents a timely contribution to our understanding of a widening urban phenomenon that will affect a growing number of the world’s population. Audience: This book will be of interest to researchers and policy makers in architecture, urban planning, geography, sociology and development studies.

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City planning -- Asia. --- Electronic books. -- local. --- High-rise apartment buildings -- Asia. --- High-rise apartment buildings -- Environmental aspects -- Asia. --- Business & Economics --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Communities - Urban Groups --- Real Estate, Housing & Land Use --- High-rise apartment buildings --- City planning --- Environmental aspects --- High apartment buildings --- Multistory housing --- Geography. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Medical research. --- Regional planning. --- Urban planning. --- Architecture. --- Sociology. --- Quality of life. --- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning. --- Geography, general. --- Quality of Life Research. --- Sociology, general. --- Architecture, general. --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Apartment houses --- Tall buildings --- Quality of Life --- Research. --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Life, Quality of --- Economic history --- Human ecology --- Life --- Social history --- Basic needs --- Human comfort --- Social accounting --- Work-life balance --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Regional development --- Regional planning --- State planning --- Human settlements --- Land use --- Planning --- Landscape protection --- Design and construction --- Government policy --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Management --- Architecture, Primitive

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