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Directors of urban change in Asia / edited by Peter J.M. Nas.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific studies ; 9Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2005Description: xii, 269 pages : illustrations , maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415350891 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76095 DIR 23 DS0191
LOC classification:
  • HT169.A77 D57 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: directors of urban change / Peter J.M. Nas -- Colombo / Siri T. Hettige -- Guangzhou City: ever-changing urban planning / Zhou Daming -- Hanoi: between the imperfect past and the conditional future / Hans Schenk -- Jakarta: conflicting directions / Pratiwo and Peter J.M. Nas -- Kuala Lumpur and Singapore: high hopes versus a low profile / Freek Colombijn -- Makassar: set, backstage and a diva in an Indonesian secondary city / Christoph Antweiler -- Metro Manila: designers or directors of urban development? / Otto van den Muijzenberg and Ton van Naerssen -- Nanjing: promoting the ICT sector / Meine Pieter van Dijk -- Semarang: was H.F. Tillema a director of urban change? / Peter J.M. Nas and Kirsten Theuns -- Surabaya: the bridge to Madura / Manuelle Franck -- Tehran: a mega-city built without a vision / Soheila Shahshahani -- Tokyo: paradise of speculators and builders / Shuji Funo.
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore David Satterthwaite Collection 307.76095 DIR DS0191 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available DS0191

Based on papers presented at the international workshop Mega-urbanization in Asia and Europe : directors of urban change in a comparative perspective, held in Leiden, 12-14 December 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: directors of urban change / Peter J.M. Nas -- Colombo / Siri T. Hettige -- Guangzhou City: ever-changing urban planning / Zhou Daming -- Hanoi: between the imperfect past and the conditional future / Hans Schenk -- Jakarta: conflicting directions / Pratiwo and Peter J.M. Nas -- Kuala Lumpur and Singapore: high hopes versus a low profile / Freek Colombijn -- Makassar: set, backstage and a diva in an Indonesian secondary city / Christoph Antweiler -- Metro Manila: designers or directors of urban development? / Otto van den Muijzenberg and Ton van Naerssen -- Nanjing: promoting the ICT sector / Meine Pieter van Dijk -- Semarang: was H.F. Tillema a director of urban change? / Peter J.M. Nas and Kirsten Theuns -- Surabaya: the bridge to Madura / Manuelle Franck -- Tehran: a mega-city built without a vision / Soheila Shahshahani -- Tokyo: paradise of speculators and builders / Shuji Funo.

Gift of David Satterthwaite.

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