Asian Ethical Urbanism
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Asian Ethical Urbanism A Radical Postmodern Perspective
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Author : William Siew Wai Lim
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2005-07-15
Asian Ethical Urbanism A Radical Postmodern Perspective written by William Siew Wai Lim and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-15 with Business & Economics categories.
With the impending demise of modernist planning, the footprints and corpses of failed modernist visions are littered everywhere. A vacuum of implementable urban theories has occurred at the time when unprecedented expansion and restructuring of cities in rapidly developing economies are taking place. In this collection of essays, William S W Lim zeroes in on the peculiarities and dynamics of present Asian urban and architectural conditions in order to challenge and transcend the socio-ecological forms and political influences generated by the current system of global capitalism.Part I of this book consists of the main essay, which attempts to establish baselines for an effective formulation of ethical urbanism in Asia, by clarifying issues that have previously been unquestioningly bound up with Western values and discourses. As an architect/urbanist, Lim lends a determinedly spatialist and environmental perspective to issues such as rights, ethics, happiness and social justice, while compelling his readers to rethink previously established notions about them.Part II of this book consists of three city studies on Hanoi, Shanghai and Singapore, completed in the last two years, which attempt to match Lim's theoretical formulation with actual conditions occurring in Asia today. Also included is “Asian Architecture in the New Millennium”, a fascinating discourse on contemporary design conducted from a postmodern perspective.
Asian Ethical Urbanism
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Author : William Siew Wai Lim
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2005
Asian Ethical Urbanism written by William Siew Wai Lim and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Social Science categories.
- The author, having lectured widely on subjects relating to architecture and urbanism around the region, has in depth knowledge of Asian cities and their urban and architectural conditions - The book provides an alternative urbanism addressing the unprecedented urban explosion in the emerging non-Western economies and the increasingly prevalent post-modern conditions of pluralistic culture, tolerance of differences, fragmentation and chaotic order - The book presents a radical theory of Asian ethical urbanism, which transcends and discards the constraints and rigidity of modernist planning and situates its critical substances within the challenging conditions of Asian cities today
Asian Alterity With Special Reference To Architecture And Urbanism Through The Lens Of Cultural Studies
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Author : William Siew Wai Lim
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2007-12-04
Asian Alterity With Special Reference To Architecture And Urbanism Through The Lens Of Cultural Studies written by William Siew Wai Lim and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-04 with Architecture categories.
Asian Alterity is an interdisciplinary theoretical analysis that vigorously contests the homogeneity of the mainstream Eurocentric values. Part I argues for the need for an alternate perspective to be introduced so as to understand the diversity of Asia's cultural differences at their varied development stages and to meet the complex challenges of the explosive urban expansion and disruptive changes in traditional cultures and lifestyles.Part II of the book consists of nine case studies of Asian major urban cities by well-established academic writers and urban theorists. Each author presents diverse aspects of urban dynamism. The case studies will collectively demonstrate a broad framework to understand the essentiality of the interdisciplinary mode of Cultural Studies as an important lens towards meeting the challenges in Asian Architecture and Urbanism.Highlights of the book:
The Impossibility Of Mapping Urban Asia
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Author : Ute Meta Bauer
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2020-02-12
The Impossibility Of Mapping Urban Asia written by Ute Meta Bauer and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-12 with Architecture categories.
Following the lifework (1960s to 2010) of visionary Singaporean architect William S. W. Lim, The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia) is a compelling compilation of case studies and historical projects. This multifaceted publication takes Lim's ideas to a future Asia: a region defined by an irreducibly complex urban topography under constant flux. Looking from Singapore to Southeast Asia, and from this region to Asia more expansively (and beyond), it presents a diverse range of activities which may be productively framed through the notion of critical spatial practice.The book has three interconnected points of departure: Lim's lifework; the interdisciplinary exhibition 'Incomplete Urbanism: Attempts at Critical Spatial Practice' at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, and the related conference, 'The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia)'; and the cross-cultural and urban festival 'CITIES FOR PEOPLE, NTU CCA Ideas Fest 2016/17', held at venues around Gillman Barracks, Singapore. The multiple links are emphasised in three key ways: through editorial texts, through design concepts, and through selected projects inserted as 'intermissions' between each of the book's sections.Artists, planners, activists, architects, scholars get together in this volume to respond to Lim's critical spatial practice. Research essays, artworks, visual and textual documentation, spatio-temporal maps grapple with the diversity of Southeast Asia, offering unexpected responses to planning, building, and living cities and urban spaces, but also put forward the question, 'Who owns the city?'. This key collection offers a path into spatial questions in Asia and beyond, and serves as a teaching and research tool.
Incomplete Urbanism A Critical Urban Strategy For Emerging Economies
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Author : William Siew Wai Lim
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2011-11-30
Incomplete Urbanism A Critical Urban Strategy For Emerging Economies written by William Siew Wai Lim and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with Architecture categories.
Incomplete Urbanism is a dynamic, hybrid interactive concept, which destabilizes the current architectural and urban theories and practices. Its main characteristics are indeterminacy, inconsistency and changeability, which are particularly challenging in the context of the New World Order and the fast emerging global digital network. It is a concept that can be effectively applied to any sizeable section of existing cities without the need for major readjustments and can be implemented at different rates in response to specific local conditions. As for the word ‘critical’, I use it deliberately in order to convey the essential need to think creatively and positively in a controversial contesting and social-orientated manner about what we do, as it will constructively influence the way we do things that impact our values and social environment.
Asian New Urbanism And Other Papers
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Author : William Siew Wai Lim
language : en
Publisher: Select Books (Singapore)
Release Date : 1998
Asian New Urbanism And Other Papers written by William Siew Wai Lim and has been published by Select Books (Singapore) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Architecture categories.
Urban Design Ethics In Ancient China
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Author : Gideon Golany
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 2001
Urban Design Ethics In Ancient China written by Gideon Golany and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Architecture categories.
Examines achitecture and urban design as a joint entity, using socio-cultural studies to develop a complete picture of the forces that shape Chinese design. This study incorporates information from other disciplines - history, archeology, anthropology - to elaborate the discussions and conclusions. It highlights the influence of Chinese thoughts, behavior and ethics upon the formation of their distinctive spatial form.
Messy Urbanism
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Author : Manish Chalana
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-01
Messy Urbanism written by Manish Chalana and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-01 with Architecture categories.
Seemingly messy and chaotic, the landscapes and urban life of cities in Asia possess an order and hierarchy that often challenges understanding and appreciation. With contributions by a cross-disciplinary group of authors, Messy Urbanism: Understanding the “Other” Cities of Asia examines a range of cases in Asia to explore the social and institutional politics of urban informality and the contexts in which this “messiness” emerges or is constructed. The book brings a distinct perspective to the broader patterns of informal urban orders and processes as well as their interplay with formalized systems and mechanisms. It also raises questions about the production of cities, cityscapes, and citizenship. Messy Urbanism will appeal to professionals, students, and scholars in the fields of urban studies, architecture, landscape architecture, planning and policy, as well as Asian studies. “The rubric of ‘messy urbanism’ is a productive antidote to the binaries that have limited a productive discussion about urbanism in Asia. This book is a significant contribution in understanding the inherent nature of the built environments in aspiring democracies—an emergent urbanism that seamlessly embraces the incremental, temporal, and ephemeral as given conditions in the formation of Asian cities.” —Rahul Mehrotra, Architect / Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Harvard University “This book is of a high quality, with multiple examples from Hong Kong and China. The authors have covered the topic admirably and I expect the book to attract a wide readership.” —Vinit Mukhija, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Urban Planning, UCLA
Green Asia
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Author : Tania Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-09-13
Green Asia written by Tania Lewis and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-13 with Social Science categories.
Economic development in Asia is associated with expanding urbanism, overconsumption, and a steep growth in living standards. At the same time, rapid urbanisation, changing class consciousness, and a new rural–urban divide in the region have led to fundamental shifts in the way ecological concerns are articulated politically and culturally. Moreover, these changes are often viewed through a Western moralistic lens, which at the same time applauds Asia’s economic growth as the welcome reviver of a floundering world economy and simultaneously condemns this growth as encouraging hyperconsumerism and a rupture with more natural ways of living. This book presents an analysis of a range of practices and activities from across Asia that demonstrate that people in Asia are alert to ecological concerns, that they are taking action to implement new styles of green living, and that Asia offers interesting alternatives to narrow Anglo-American models of sustainable living. Subjects explored include eco-tourism in the Philippines, green co-operatives in Korea, the importance of "tradition" within Asian discourses of sustainability, and much more.
Incomplete Urbanism
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Author : William Siew Wai Lim
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2012
Incomplete Urbanism written by William Siew Wai Lim and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Architecture categories.
Foreword by Leon van SchaikIncomplete Urbanism is a dynamic, hybrid interactive concept, which destabilizes the current architectural and urban theories and practices. Its main characteristics are indeterminacy, inconsistency and changeability, which are particularly challenging in the context of the New World Order and the fast emerging global digital network. It is a concept that can be effectively applied to any sizeable section of existing cities without the need for major readjustments and can be implemented at different rates in response to specific local conditions. As for the word ?critical?, I use it deliberately in order to convey the essential need to think creatively and positively in a controversial contesting and social-orientated manner about what we do, as it will constructively influence the way we do things that impact our values and social environment.