The disappearing 'Asian' city : protecting Asia's urban heritage in a globalizing world / edited by William S. Logan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Logan, William Stewart, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Asia.

Cities and towns.

Historic preservation.

Asia.

City planning--Asia.

City planning.

Historic preservation--Asia.

Physical Description:

xxi, 285 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

The Disappearing Asian City is a comparative study of urban heritage attitudes, threats, planning policies, and practices in a selection of fourteen Asian cities. It focuses on the theme of the steady erosion of what many Asian and Western commentators have regarded as the quintessential 'Asian' qualities of those cities, particularly in terms of their built form under the impact of current processes of rapid economic and cultural globalization.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-279) and index.

ISBN:

0195921054

OCLC:

51535253