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Emerging Urbanity: Global Urban Projects in the Asia Pacific Rim
Richard Marshall
ISBN 13: 9780415256230
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Softcover
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Emerging Urbanity examines some of the largest and most anbitious urban projects in the world today. These projects exist in response to the desires of their respective governments to engage more fully in the global economy. They are an essential aspect of a city's global infrastructure and in this sense are the most important urban projects. While other regions of the world have shown the desire to capture larger shares of the global economy through the construction of urban projects, the Pacific Rim is unique in the scale and the number of such projects.
The synergy of the Asian Miracle created an unpresedented climate of confidence about the future of the Pacific Rim. This confidence manifested itself in both tremendous economic development and urban growth. Emerging Urbanity explores the ascension of the Asian dragons and examines the results of this on urban form. The urban projects examined are but one aspect of a much larger urbanization drama unfolding in cities throughout thePacific Rim. However, unlike the multitude of separate policy, land use, development, design, infrastructure, transportation and economic decisions that combine to create the urban form of a metropolis, these projects rather are defined presentations of an urban vision, an idea of a city. Emerging Urbanity ponders the implications of these urban projects for the future of the urban form.
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Book Description: Taylor and Francis(Routledge), 2002. Paperback. Book Condition: New. (224 pages) Discussions on the goba economy focus on the hyper-mobiity of capita, the possibiity of instantaneous transmission of information and money around the gobe, the centraity of information outputs to our economic systems and emphasise the neutraisation of geography and of paces. What is ignored, however, is that even the most advanced information industries need a materia infrastructure of buidings and work processes, and considerabe aggomeration, in order to operate in goba markets. Further, the gobaisation of economic activity has brought with it not ony a vast dispersa of offices and factories, but aso a growing importance of centra functions to manage and coordinate such wordwide networks of activities. The deveopment of goba urban projects is one manifestation of this move towards centraity in urban situations. These arge-scae urban projects are the resut of governments' seeking competitive advantage in the goba economy. They are critica components of a nation's goba infrastructure. In the booming economies of the Asia Pacific Rim prior to the Asian Economic Crisis these urban deveopments were seen as key components of nationa economic poicies. In their making they require a conscious effort to arrange materia infrastructure and reinforce that there is a roe for urban design in this making. Emerging Urbanity is an exporation of this roe in nine goba urban projects in the Asia Pacific Rim.1. Emerging Urbanity 2. Tokyo Rainbow Town, Japan 3. The Project of the Century, Minato Mirai 21, Yokohama, Japan 4.The Goden City in the City of Anges, Muang Thong Thani, Bangkok, Thaiand 5. Foca Point of China, Lujiazui, Shanghai 6. The Siicon Vaey of China, Zhongguancun Science and Technoogy Park, Beijing 7. Doi Moi and the Ascending Dragons of Vietnam, Hanoi North and Saigon South 8. New Downtown - Ideas for the City of Tomorrow, Singapore's New Centra Business District 9. The Making of a Maaysian Capita, Putrajaya and the Mutimedia Super Corridor, Kuaa Lumpur 10. The Idea of the City - Critica Pasts and Futures. Bibiography. (Paperback). Bookseller Inventory # AG0415256232 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Book Description: Taylor Francis Ltd, United States, 2002. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 276 x 219 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Discussions of the global economy focus on the hyper-mobility of capital, the possibility of instantaneous transmission of information and money around the globe, the centrality of information outputs to our economic systems and emphasize the neutralization of geography and of places. What is ignored, however, is that even the most advanced information industries need a material infrastructure of buildings and work processes, and considerable agglomeration, in order to operate in global markets. Further, the globalization of economic activity has brought with it not only a vast dispersal of offices and factories, but also a growing importance of central functions to manage and coordinate such worldwide networks of activities. The development of global urban projects is one manifestation of this move towards centrality in urban situations. These large-scale urban projects are the result of governments' seeking competitive advantage in the global economy. They are critical components of a nation's global infrastructure.In the booming economies of the Asia Pacific Rim prior to the Asian Economic Crisis these urban developments were seen as key components of national economic policies. In their making they require a conscious effort to arrange material infrastructure and reinforce that there is a role for urban design in this making. Emerging Urbanity is an exploration of this role in nine global urban projects in the Asia Pacific Rim. Bookseller Inventory # AA69780415256230 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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