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Urban Architecture and Local Spaces in Pakistan (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,023
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Urban Architecture and Local Spaces in Pakistan (Hardcover): Suneela Ahmed

Urban Architecture and Local Spaces in Pakistan (Hardcover)

Suneela Ahmed

Series: Architecture and Urbanism in the Global South

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This book is set in Karachi, Pakistan and investigates the possibility of achieving localness through identifying urban process and their impact on built form, addressing how locals associate with the urban spaces and how they value it. Thus, the investigation, using the local terminology maqamiat, goes beyond the physicality of space and develops a framework that helps to understand the social, ethnic, economic, ecological and other the non-physical aspects of space, which are of value to the locals. The aim is to investigate the possibility of achieving localness through identifying urban design elements that can be incorporated into the process of designing new built forms that acknowledges what is valued by the locals instead of superimposing imported designs, negating the contextual realties, both physical and social. For this purpose, the book includes three case studies from Karachi. The book questions the aspiration of many cities in the South Asian context to imitate the built forms of Western cities (increasingly, Singapore and Shanghai) which are viewed as modern and represents future. The book will make a theoretical contribution to the existing literature on postcolonial urbanism and explore space from a local vantage point for understanding how to look inwards for aspiration.

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Imprint: Taylor & Francis
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Architecture and Urbanism in the Global South
Release date: October 2022
First published: 2023
Authors: Suneela Ahmed
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 978-1-03-215911-9
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Theory of architecture
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies
Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Regional geography
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > City & town planning - architectural aspects
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities
Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General
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LSN: 1-03-215911-1
Barcode: 9781032159119

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