ISBN: 9781861892492 - East Asia Modern – Shaping the Contemporary City (18 results)

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Condition: New. East Asia today is a hotbed of urban expansion. This comparative study of urban expansion in the region, examines the processes by which new city building has taken place in recent years. It also refutes many of the common misconceptions about life in modern East Asia, and provides a critical assessment of the cities of the region. Num Pages: 224 pages, 52 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; AMVD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 161 x 13. Weight in Grams: 302. . 2005. Paperback. . . . .…

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Condition: New. East Asia today is a hotbed of urban expansion. This comparative study of urban expansion in the region, examines the processes by which new city building has taken place in recent years. It also refutes many of the common misconceptions about life in modern East Asia, and provides a critical assessment of the cities of the region. Num Pages: 224 pages, 52 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; AMVD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 161 x 13. Weight in Grams: 302. . 2005. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Condition: New. East Asia today is a hotbed of urban expansion. This comparative study of urban expansion in the region, examines the processes by which new city building has taken place in recent years. It also refutes many of the common misconceptions about life in moder.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 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. A renowned scholar on East Asian architecture and urbanism, Peter G. Rowe examines how the unique modernizing process of East Asian cities can be most usefully understood. Rowe offers a historical assessment of the region, chronicling the cities' development over the last century and setting into context their individual paths toward becoming modern. Rowe explains what the modernizing process has meant for the cultural diffusion of predominantly Western ideas, how East Asian urban regions have developed a distinct type of modernity, and what lessons can be gleaned from the contemporary East Asian experience. Refuting many common misconceptions about contemporary East Asian life, 'East Asia Modern offers a readable critical assessment of life in modern East Asia while also pointing to possibilities for the future.…