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The main research objective is to decipher the role of both water conditions and water conflicts in the interplay of the rural settlements and productive landscapes that constitute the Chia-Nan Plain, Taiwan. Consequently, the research considers Taiwans (r)urban design from three main perspectives: (1) rural water management; (2) vulnerable productive landscapes; and (3) fragmentated peri-urban settlements. The rural economies of Taiwan have been experiencing a shift from agriculture to high-technology industry, while the rural population remained stable and aging. Therefore, the research focuses on the challenges regarding the environmental and economic transformations of the rural areas in the Chia-Nan Plain. The research applies descriptive and interpretive mapping methodologies to review the patterns of interactions between cultivation behaviours and rural settlement morphologies in the Chia-Nan Plainthe rice basket of Taiwan. The research furthermore discusses the crucial logics behind the formation of settlements in this region as a result of rural-urban interactions. Hence, three layers (water, productive landscape, and scales of production) in the productive surface, that are critical to the spatial environment, are highlighted in the research. These three layers characterize its social and spatial networks for territorial development, and build up the fundamental structures and activities of the region. Three new hypotheses in the form of urban design investigations, are tested: (1) a qualitative water landscape which could guide the deurbanization in the post-agricultural regions; (2) a qualitative water productive landscape that could be an engine of new rural economic development; and (3) new scales of production which could change land patterns. The design research for the Chia-Nan plain concentrates mainly on the ability of the potential new rural settlement forms to adapt to the contemporary requirements that result from climate change and economic shifts. Extreme weather conditions, such as floods and droughts, are both new realities. The increasing frequency of storms has led to massive floods in both low-lying fields and along the coastline, and droughts have resulted in a fight of water usage between agriculture and high-technology industry. The research employs two case studies to discuss two different water-related productive landscapes (paddy and aquatic landscapes), and explores how innovative urban design propositions and water management measures in these territories can be adapted to benefit the environment. The areas investigated by these two case studies are located in two different geographical conditionsplain and coastal areasof the Chia-Nan Plain. They face two different challenges, namely water retention and land subsidence. The two case studies are initiated by historical analysis and the deciphering of contemporary projects, via-a-vis layered narratives and contested territories of specific sites. Design research concludes the two studies, that intend to innovate an approach for Taiwans urban design and water management in the interplay of rural settlements and productive landscapes. They verify the three hypotheses. In short, the research uses research by design. It explores spatial strategies that aim to have the potential to meet the changes of contemporary society and steer necessary environmental transformations. The research therefore draws on and contributes to the field of landscape urbanism in Asian agrarian territories, which are currently undergoing unprecedented transformation, in speed, scale and scope. The research will enable new possibilities for a productive terrain to generate new public realm, which can be used by urban and landscape designs to structure a deurbanizing agrarian territory.

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City planning --- Urbanisme --- South Asia --- Asie méridionale --- History --- Histoire --- 711.4 <5> --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--Azië --- 711.4 <5> Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--Azië --- Asie méridionale

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City planning --- Urbanisme --- Karachi (Pakistan) --- Description and travel --- Descriptions et voyages --- Academic collection --- 711.4 <5> --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--Azië --- 711.4 <5> Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--Azië --- Karāchi (Pākistān)

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This book examines the urban fabric of contemporary Tokyo as a valuable demonstration of permeable, inclusive, and adaptive urban patterns that required neither extensive master planning nor corporate urbanism to develop. These urban patterns are emergent: that is, they are the combined result of numerous modifications and appropriations of space by small agents interacting within a broader socio-economic ecosystem. Together, they create a degree of urban intensity and liveliness that is the envy of the world’s cities.This book examines five of these patterns that appear conspicuously throughout Tokyo: yokochō alleyways, multi-tenant zakkyo buildings, undertrack infills, low-rise dense neighborhoods, and the river-like ankyo streets. Unlike many of the discussions on Tokyo that emphasize cultural uniqueness, this book aims at transcultural validity, with a focus on empirical analysis of the spatial and social conditions that allow these patterns to emerge. The authors of Emergent Tokyo acknowledge the distinct character of Tokyo without essentializing or fetishizing it, offering visitors, architects, and urban policy practitioners an unparalleled understanding of Tokyo’s urban landscape.

711.4 <5> --- 711.4 <5> Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--Azië --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--Azië --- City planning --- Cities and towns --- Urbanisme --- Villes --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Tokyo (Japan) --- Tokyo (Japon) --- Social conditions. --- Conditions sociales

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Middle Eastern cities cannot be lumped together as a single group. Rather they make up the urban kaleidoscope of the title, as the diversity of the six cities included here shows. They range from cities rich in tradition (Cairo, Tunis, and Baghdad), to neglected cities (Algiers and Sana'a), to newly emerging 'oil-rich' Gulf cities (Dubai). The authors are all young Arab scholars and architects local to the cities they describe, providing an authentic voice with an understanding no outsider could achieve. These contributors move away from an exclusively 'Islamic' reading of A

City planning --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Government policy --- Management --- 711.4 <5> --- 711.4 <5> Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--Azië --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw--Azië