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Peter G. Rowe - East Asia Modern – Shaping the Contemporary City - 9781861892492 - V9781861892492
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East Asia Modern – Shaping the Contemporary City

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Description for East Asia Modern – Shaping the Contemporary City paperback. 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.
East Asia today is a hotbed of urban expansion. Cities such as Singapore, Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai are expanding at a prodigious rate, and this ongoing process of expansion and modernization is bringing rapid and widespread change to this 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, well known 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 modernization has meant for the general cultural diffusion of 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 modernization. "East Asia Modern" refutes many of the common misconceptions about life in modern East Asia, and provides a readable, critical assessment of the cities of the region, while also pointing to possible ways forward for the future.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861892492
SKU
V9781861892492
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Peter G. Rowe
Peter G. Rowe is Professor and former Dean of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. He is the author of a number of books including Architectural Encounters with Essence and Form in Modern China (2002, with Seng Kuan) and Modernity and Housing (1993).

Reviews for East Asia Modern – Shaping the Contemporary City
... an interesting, well-informed, critical and comparative overview of contemporary modernisation in East Asian cities ... A strength of the book is the examination of architectural style and building form. A real sense of cityscape is provided via the accounts of pencil buildings in Hong Kong and the verticality of living ... This book should be a valuable library reference source ... The book's content is up-to-date and detailed ... the numerous black and white photographic illustrations are excellent Geography

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