Asian Ethical Urbanism
Author | : William Siew Wai Lim |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2005 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789812563132 |
ISBN-13 | : 981256313X |
Rating | : 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: - 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