Cross-cultural urban design : global or local practice? / edited by Catherin Bull ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bull, Catherin Jane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Cross-cultural studies.

City planning.

Globalization.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 241 pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

Unprecedented in its scope, Cross-Cultural Urban Design: Global Or Local Practice? explores how urban design has responded to recent trends towards global standardization. Following analysis of practice in many places, at many scales and among many disciplines in the local domain, the book looks at how urban design and planning should be repositioned for the future.

Cross-Cultural Urvan Design introduces and discusses the issues that now confront the planning and design of cities and settlements and create the context for cross-cultural urban design practice everywhere, including: population movement, international communication, urbanization and suburbanization, environmental degradation, tourism, sustainability, commercialization, flows of capital. It maps out how urban practitioners, researchers and educators are currently responding to these issues in their work, presenting and discussing cases and theories of urbanism from across the globe.

Contributions are framed in three sections Reconceptualizing the city presents ways to read the contemporary city and rethink work within it. Experiments in practice presents and discusses cases where practitioners have confronted new conditions as experiments observed and queried. Finally, Learning cross-cultural urban design presents and discusses the learning process as a field of research and its contribution to practice.

The concluding chapter offers new theoretical frameworks for understanding current practice and ways of developing the capacity to deal with urban environments globally.

A unique collection that will be of use to all those engaged in contemporary urban design research and practice, Cross-Cultural Urban Design presents a new way of thinking about urban design within the complex context of the contemporary world and posits a way forward - as cross-cultural practice that supports and develops sustainability - locally.

Contents:

Foreword: confronting epistemes xvi

Introduction: cross-cultural practice - why experiment now? / Catherin Bull, Claire Parin 1

Part 1 Reconceptualizing the city 14

Introduction: new ways to read difference / Claire Parin 15

1 Finding the identity of place through local landscapes: Mooban and Kampong / Sani Limthongsakul 25

2 Erasure, layering, transformation, absorption: the convergence of formal traditions / Sidh Sintusingha 29

3 Between 'asianization' and 'new cosmopolitanism': housing in twenty-first-century Singapore / Xavier Guillot 34

4 Dissolved identity and disintegrated globalization / Steven Whitford 39

5 The communal project and the reinforcement of values / Emmanuel Amougou Mballa 46

6 Urban development and context: the traditional landscape and globalization in Marrakech / Jean-Noel Tournier 49

7 The urban edge: Bangkok soi as mediators of the global and local / Koen De Wandeler 57

8 Eco-planning for development in northern Thailand / Thada Sutthitham 65

9 Local identity in Bangkok's business districts / Ornsiri Panin 71

Part 2 Experiments in practice 76

Introduction: the dynamics of the urban design project / Guy Tapie, Darko Radovic 77

10 Transparency in sustainable development: Nhong Han Basin, Thailand / Eggarin Anukulyudhathon 89

11 Restructuring the medina in Tunis: El Hafsia / Wassim Ben Mahmoud 94

12 Garden urbanism in China and New Zealand / Matthew Bradbury 99

13 Revitalizing the Montenegrin village: Gornja Lastva / Laurence Feveile, Marija Nikolic, Nicolas Petrovitch Njegosh 103

14 Strategies to support urban identity: are there European models? / Carlos Gotlieb 108

15 Mediating global and local: the Montreal experience / Daniel Latouche 112

16 New practices in urban development / Jean-Claude Margueritte 115

17 Sustainable tourism for local identity: the hill-tribe villages of northern Thailand / Wandee Pinijvarasin, Pasinee Sunakorn 119

18 Making the city: the Bordeaux experience / Michel Bergeron, Patrice Godier 124

Part 3 Learning cross-cultural practice 128

Introduction: reflecting on cross-cultural interactions / Catherin Bull, Davisi Boontharm 129

19 Casts, roles and scripts of otherness / Darko Radovic 135

20 Analysis, concept and the value of words / Davisi Boontharm 150

21 Work and/or play? / Piyalada D. Thaveeprungsriporn 163

22 Why use English? / Singh Intrachooto 168

23 Sustainability learnt from difference / Glenn Thomas 174

24 Experiencing cross-cultural practice / Catherin Bull 187

25 Workshops as culture / Guy Tapie 204

Conclusion: urban design for a cross-cultural future / Catherin Bull, Darko Radovic, Claire Parin 208.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415432795

0415432790

9780415432801

0415432804

9780203089392

0203089391

OCLC:

123232253