East Asia modern : shaping the contemporary city
An exciting explosion of urban expansion is occurring in East Asia: cities such as Singapore, Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing, and Shanghai are expanding at a prodigious rate and bringing widespread change to the region. Peter G. Rowe's East Asia Modern is a timely comparative analysis of urban growth in this rapidly evolving part of the globe. Peter G. Rowe's East Asia Modern is a timely comparative study of urban expansion in the region, examining the processes by which new city building has taken place in recent years. The author - a well-known writer in the field of East Asian architecture and urbanism - focuses on how the modernizing process might most usefully be understood, especially with regard to building processes and projects; and how that understanding differs from other modernizing circumstances. He explains what the process has meant for the general cultural diffusion of modern, largely Western, ideas, how East Asian urban regions have developed their own distinct kind of modernity, and also what lessons can be learned from the contemporary East Asian experience. The book also provides a historical assessment of the region, showing how cities have developed over the last century and setting into context their individual paths towards becoming modern
History
224 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9781861892492, 1861892497
61128692
Introduction
Relationships and urbanizing trajectories
Outside influences and urban patterns
Urban forms and local expressions
Urban experience and shaping the space of a time