contents
Introduction – Framing the Asian city / Vinayak Bharne
PART I: Traditions
Editor’'s introduction
1. Anointed cities: The incremental urbanism
of Hindu India / Vinayak Bharne
2. Cultivating cultural memory: Observing
ethnic transitions in Inner Mongolia / Eric Schuldenfrei
3. The paradise between two worlds: Rereading
Taj Mahal and its environs / Vinayak Bharne
4. Vernacular shifts: Observing dwelling
patterns in Anatolian Turkey / Vic Liptak
5. Axes and alleyways: The
tradition of duality in contemporary Korean cities / Pilwon Han
6. The cultural construction of Surakarta,
Java / Robert Cowherd
7. The new Old City: Nostalgia,
representation and gentrifi cation in historic Damascus / Christa Salamandra
8. The death and life of traditional aquatic
settlements in central Thailand / Kasama Polakit
PART II: Tensions
Editor’s introduction
9. Tensions manifested: Reading the Viceroy’s
House in New Delhi / Aseem Inam
10. Macau paradox: Post-colonial
Portuguese-Chinese urban manifestations / Marisa Yiu
11. Le Corbusier’s ruin: The changing face of
Chandigarh’'s Capitol / Vinayak Bharne
12. High dreams and stark realities: Reading
Islamabad / Noman Ahmed and Hanif Daud
13. An (almost) all-American city: The vision
and legacy of the Tehran Comprehensive Plan / Vesta Nareh Zareh
14. The dilemmas of conservation and
reconstruction in Beirut / Aseel Sawalha
15. Manifesting democracy: Public space and
the search for identity in post-war Japan / Vinayak Bharne
16. The post-colonial unconscious: Observing
mega-imagistic urban projects in Asia / Abidin Kusno
PART III: Transformations
Editor’s introduction
17. Global architecture and ethnic enclaves:
Reading Kuala Lumpur’s city centre / Mari Fujita
18. Making way for a global metropolis:
Mumbai’s rapidly transforming informal sector / Manish Chalana
19. From handshake buildings to golf villa
estates: How the ‘flash cities’ of Manchester and Shenzhen came of age /
Nick Roberts
20. Reshaping Hong Kong: Dimensions of change
in a compact city / Peter Cookson Smith
21. Building utopias: China’s emerging new
town movement / Zhongjie Lin
22. Vertical urbanism, horizontal urbanity:
Notes from east Asian cities / Jeffrey Hou
23. The museums as economic catalyst: Abu
Dhabi’s new cultural district / Seth Thompson
24. The ‘Dubai effect’: The Gulf, the art
world and globalization / Brettany Shannon
Epilogue: Engaging the Asian city /
Vinayak Bharne and Aseem
Inam
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