Asian Ethical Urbanism : A Radical Postmodern Perspective

by Lim, William S. W.; Van Schaik, Leon

• ISBN13: 9789812563132
• ISBN10: 981256313X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

- 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

Table of Contents

Comments	x
Li Shiqiao
John Philips
Sharon Siddique
Preface	xx
Acknowledgements	xxiv
Introduction	xxv
Leon van Schaik
Part I
Asian Ethical Urbanism: A Radical Postmodern Perspective
Orientation	3	(16)
Multiple Modernities	6	(5)
Ethics and Happiness	11	(4)
Radical Glocality	15	(4)
Asian Ethical Urbanism	19	(10)
Conservation and Memories	22	(1)
Safeguarding the Commons	23	(1)
Spaces of Indeterminancy	24	(1)
Land	25	(2)
Spatial Justice	27	(2)
Post-Planning as a Credible Instrument for Asian Ethical Urbanism	29	(7)
Conclusion	36	(8)
Case Studies
Post-planning in Central, Hong Kong	44	(8)
Koh Wan Ching
Learning from Bangkok	52	(11)
Kevin S K Lim
Part II
Asian Architecture in the New Millenium: A Postmodern Imagery	63	(28)
Ancient Quarter Hanoi: A Living Tradition	91	(12)
Have You Been Shanghaied? Culture and Urbanism in Glocalised Shanghai	103	(30)
Architecture, Art, Identity in Singapore: Is There Life After Tabula Rasa?	133	(82)
Works Cited	215	(12)
Index	227	(8)
Photographic Credits	235