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Asian Cities Serie de eBooks

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  • Asian Cities: Colonial to Global

    Edición de Gregory Bracken ...
    Series series Asian Cities
    When people look at success stories among postcolonial nations, the focus almost always turns to Asia, where many cities in former colonies have become key locations of international commerce and culture. This book brings together a stellar group of scholars from a number of disciplines to explore the rise of Asian cities, including Singapore, Macau, Hong Kong, and more. Dealing with history, ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West

    Care of the Self

    Edición de Gregory Bracken ...
    Series series Asian Cities
    What does it mean to be a good citizen today? What are practices of citizenship? And what can we learn from the past about these practices to better engage in city life in the twenty-first century? Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self is a collection of papers that examine these questions. The contributors come from a variety of different disciplines, ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Future Challenges of Cities in Asia

    Edición de Gregory Bracken, Paul Rabé, R. Parthasarathy, Neha Sami, Bing Zhang ...
    Series series Asian Cities
    The ten essays in Future Challenges of Cities in Asia engage with some of the most critical urban questions of the near future across Asia. These comprise socio-economic and cultural transitions as a result of urbanization; environmental challenges, especially questions of climate change, natural disasters, and environmental justice; and the challenges of urban infrastructure, built form, and new ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West

    Care of the Self

    Edición de Gregory Bracken ...
    Series series Asian Cities
    Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self examines urban communities and societies in Asia and the West to shed much-needed light on issues that have emerged as the world experiences its new urban turn. An urbanized world should be an improving place, one that is better to live in, one where humans can flourish. This collection of essays examines contemporary ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Future Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West

    Care of the Self (Volume III)

    Edición de Gregory Bracken, Paul Rabé, Nurul Azreen Azlan ...
    Series series Asian Cities
    Future Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West investigates some of the greatest challenges facing society in the twenty-first century, including the struggle for rights and recognition by indigenous peoples, women, migrants, and the young, as well as the dampening effects some government responses to COVID-19 have had on artistic freedom and citizen participation. The ill effects of ... Leer más

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  • Singapore-china Relations: 50 Years

    de Yongnian Zheng, Liang Fook Lye ...
    Series series World Scientific Series On Singapore's 50 Years Of Nation-building
    Showcasing the substantive and multi-faceted Singapore-China relationship, this book examines the political, economic, socio-cultural, people-to-people and even military exchanges between the two countries. It also highlights flagship projects and other key private sector-led projects that have become hallmarks of bilateral cooperation.The book argues that the current level of cooperation is built ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Cities in Asia by and for the People

    Edición de Yves Cabannes, Mike Douglass, Rita Padawangi ...
    Series series Asian Cities
    This book examines the active role of urban citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production of urban spaces that continue to encroach various neighborhoods, lanes, commons, public land and other spaces of community life and livelihoods. The collection of narratives presented here brings together research from ten different Asian cities and re ... Leer más

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  • Asian Tourism: Growth and Change

    Edición de Janet Cochrane ...
    Tourism in Asia is growing faster than anywhere else in the world, driven by the increasing wealth of countries like Taiwan, South Korea and Malaysia, and by the huge populations of China, India and Indonesia -the first second and fourth biggest countries in the works. Despite the significance of the tourism industry in this area it is still under researched. Asian Tourism is a unique book and the ... Leer más

    $224.99 USD

  • UNESCO on the Ground

    Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage

    Edición de Michael Dylan Foster, Lisa Gilman ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    For nearly 70 years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has played a crucial role in developing policies and recommendations for dealing with intangible cultural heritage. What has been the effect of such sweeping global policies on those actually affected by them? How connected is UNESCO with what is happening every day, on the ground, in local ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Media and the Chinese Diaspora

    Community, Communications and Commerce

    Edición de Wanning Sun ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    The importance of the Chinese diaspora is widely recognized. Wanning Sun examines the key role of the media in the Chinese diaspora. She focuses especially on the media's role in communication, in fostering a sense of community, in defining different kinds of 'transnational Chineseness' - overseas Chinese communities are often very different from one country to another - and in showing how media ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture

    Past, Present, Future

    de David Wang ...
    A Philosophy of Chinese Architecture: Past, Present, Future examines the impact of Chinese philosophy on China’s historic structures, as well as on modern Chinese urban aesthetics and architectural forms. For architecture in China moving forward, author David Wang posits a theory, the New Virtualism, which links current trends in computational design with long-standing Chinese philosophical themes ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • Planning Asian Cities

    Risks and Resilience

    Edición de Stephen Hamnett, Dean Forbes ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    In Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience, Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region’s most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific Asia’s major cities.They show how globalization, and the competition to achieve global city status, has had a profound effect on all these cities. Tokyo is an archetypal world city. ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD