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East Asia Modern - Shaping the Contemporary City (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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East Asia Modern - Shaping the Contemporary City (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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East Asia today is a hotbed of urban expansion. Cities such as
Singapore, Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai are expanding
at a prodigious rate, and this ongoing process of expansion and
modernization is bringing rapid and widespread change to this part
of the globe. Peter G. Rowe's "East Asia Modern" is a timely
comparative study of urban expansion in the region, examining the
processes by which new city building has taken place in recent
years. The author, well known in the field of East Asian
architecture and urbanism, focuses on how the modernizing process
might most usefully be understood, especially with regard to
building processes and projects; and how that understanding differs
from other modernizing circumstances. He explains what
modernization has meant for the general cultural diffusion of
largely Western, ideas, how East Asian urban regions have developed
their own distinct kind of modernity, and also what lessons can be
learned from the contemporary East Asian experience. The book also
provides a historical assessment of the region, showing how cities
have developed over the last century and setting into context their
individual paths towards modernization. "East Asia Modern" refutes
many of the common misconceptions about life in modern East Asia,
and provides a readable, critical assessment of the cities of the
region, while also pointing to possible ways forward for the
future.
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