ABSTRACT
Unprecedented in its scope, Cross-Cultural Urban Design: Global or Local Practice? explores how urban design has responded to recent trends towards global standardisation. Following analysis of its practice in the local domain, the book looks at how urban planning and design should be repositioned for the future. It looks at:population movement urb
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|62 pages
Reconceptualizing the city
chapter Chapter 2|5 pages
Erasure, layering, transformation, absorption The convergence of formal traditions
chapter Chapter 3|5 pages
Between 'asianization' and 'new cosmopolitanism' Housing in twenty-first-century Singapore
chapter Chapter 6|8 pages
Urban development and context The traditional landscape and globalization in Marrakech
part 2|52 pages
Experiments in practice
chapter Chapter 17|5 pages
Sustainable tourism for local identity The hill-tribe villages of northern Thailand
part 3|80 pages
Learning cross-cultural practice
