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  • Tokyo Roji

    The Diversity and Versatility of Alleys in a City in Transition

    de Heide Imai ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    The Japanese urban alleyway, which was once part of people’s personal spatial sphere and everyday life has been transformed by diverse and competing interests. Marginalised through the emergence of new forms of housing and public spaces, re-appropriated by different fields, and re-invented by the contemporary urban design discourse, the social meaning attached to the roji is being re-interpreted ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Sustainability and the City

    Urban Poetics and Politics

    de Anirban Adhya, Joseph Donica, Lisa FitzGerald, Heide Imai, Alexander Kleinschrodt, Mehdi Kochbati, Claudia Mantovan, Philip D. Plowright, Iuliu Ratiu, Lea Rekow, Christopher Schliephake, Katarzyna Szalewska, Caitlin Yocco-Locascio, Karim Youssef ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Sustainability and the City: Urban Poetics and Politics contributes to third-generation discourse on sustainable development by considering, through a humanistic lens, theories and practices of sustainability in a wide range of urban cultures. It demonstrates cities’ inextricability from discussions on sustainability because not only is the world urbanizing at an unprecedented rate but also cities ... Leer más

    $121.99 USD

  • Creativity in Tokyo

    Revitalizing a Mature City

    de Matjaz Ursic, Heide Imai ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book focuses on overlooked contextual factors that constitute the urban creative climate or innovative urban milieu in contemporary cities. Filled with reflections based on interviews with a diverse range of creative actors in various local neighborhoods in Tokyo, it offers a rare glimpse into the complex set of elements that provide long-term, physical, and sociocultural support to urban ... Leer más

    $116.99 USD

  • Asian Alleyways

    An Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization

    Edición de Marie Gibert-Flutre, Heide Imai ...
    Series series Asian Cities
    Asian Alleyways: An Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization critically explores Global Asia and the metropolization process, specifically from its alleyways, which are understood as ordinary neighbourhood landscapes providing the setting for everyday urban life and place-based identities being shaped by varied everyday practices, collective experiences and forces. Beyond the mainstream, ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

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  • Millionaire Migrants

    Trans-Pacific Life Lines

    de David Ley ...
    Series Libro 97 - RGS-IBG Book Series
    Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range of databases, this is an examination of the migration career of wealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and 1990s.An interdisciplinary project based on over 15 years of research in Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, with additional comparative visits and ... Leer más

    $33.00 USD

  • China's Architecture in a Globalizing World: Between Socialism and the Market

    de Jiawen Han ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on China in Transition
    China is currently in the midst of an unprecedented building boom and, indeed, interest in Chinese contemporary architecture has been fuelled by this huge expansion. Through a cutting-edge theoretical discussion of Chinese architecture in relation to Chinese modernity, this book examines this phenomenon in detail. In particular, it highlights how changes in the social-political system, the ... Leer más

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  • Airport Urbanism

    Infrastructure and Mobility in Asia

    de Max Hirsh ...
    Thirty years ago, few residents of Asian cities had ever been on a plane, much less outside their home countries. Today, flying, and flying abroad, is commonplace. How has this leap in cross-border mobility affected the design and use of such cities? And how is it accelerating broader socioeconomic and political changes in Asian societies?In Airport Urbanism, Max Hirsh undertakes an unprecedented ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Learning from Shenzhen

    China's Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City

    Edición de Mary Ann O'Donnell, Winnie Wong, Jonathan Bach ...
    This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China's contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transformed from an experimental site for economic reform into a dominant city at the crossroads of the global economy. The first of China's special economic ... Leer más

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  • Planning for Ethnic Tourism

    de Li Yang, Geoffrey Wall ...
    Series series New Directions in Tourism Analysis
    Ethnic tourism has emerged as a means that is employed by many countries to facilitate economic and cultural development and to assist in the preservation of ethnic heritage. However, while ethnic tourism has the potential to bring economic and social benefits it can also significantly impact traditional cultures, ways of life and the sense of identity of ethnic groups. There is growing concern in ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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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  • A Landscape of Travel

    The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China

    de Jenny T. Chio ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805061While the number of domestic leisure travelers has increased dramatically in reform-era China, the persistent gap between urban and rural living standards attests to ongoing social, economic, and political inequalities. The state has widely touted tourism for its potential to bring wealth and modernity to rural ethnic minority communities, but the ... Leer más

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