: Peter G. Rowe
: Emergent Architectural Territories in East Asian Cities
: Birkhäuser
: 9783034610599
: 1
: CHF 42.60
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: Architektur
: English
: 208
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This book presents current developments in city planning and architecture in East Asia. It describes the many neighborhoods in which the region's large cities are modernizing or expanding with innovative structures and advanced construction projects. It combines a typology of public structures with an analysis of the compositional principles of urban environments. Thus, it finally connects new developments in city planning with new developments in architecture, and considers examples such as CCTV, Lujiazui, Kansai Airport, Xinyi, Taipei 101, Chek Lap Kok, Cheonggyecheon, Roppongi Hills, Da Shanzi, Shahe, Omotesando, and Marina Bay from a new perspective.And the new perspectives presented here are not just theoretical: some forty full-page bird's eye views prepared especially for this volume show these future urban settings in highly detailed images of breathtaking beauty. The result is a rich portrait of the coming together of global and local influences in non-Western countries.

With its systematic approach, this presentation by one of the leading international experts in the field is a reference work on a topic of central importance to the world of construction today.



Peter G. Rowe is the Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and University Distinguished Service Professor at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. On related topics he is the author, co-author or editor of: Modern Urban Housing in China: 1840 to 2000; L'Asia e il Moderno; Architectural Encounters with Essence and Form in Modern China; Shanghai: Architecture and urbanism; and East-Asia Modern: Shaping the Contemporary City, plus numerous articles and book chapters.
CHAPTER ONE. TERRITORIES AND TURNING POINTS6
CHAPTER TWO. THE TWO AXES OF BEIJING12
Axial Arrangements, Plans and Territories14
Along Chang'an19
Within the Olympic Green32
Shifting Context40
CHAPTER THREE. FROM PUXI TO PUDONG IN SHANGHAI42
Reterritorialization and Reclamation of Prominence45
Beads on a String53
Riverfront Developments71
Legibility, Spaciousness and Scenography73
CHAPTER FOUR. FLYING IN AND OUT OF TOWN76
Territorial Expansions of Scope and Scale76
Towards Clarity, Integration and Naturalism90
Extensions and Other Modes96
Changed Circumstances99
CHAPTER FIVE. RECLAIMING AND REMAKING TERRITORIES104
From Sea to Land107
Accommodating Scalar Necessities116
Providing Contemporary Prominence129
Competitive Repositioning130
CHAPTER SIX. KEEPING AND RE-USING134
Reconciling Areas and Fragments of the Past135
Environmental interventions142
A City and Its Stream148
Playing With Time161
CHAPTER SEVEN. STREETS AND FASHION ON DISPLAY166
From Shopfronts to Building Envelopes170
A Road to Diversion and Consumption181
Pedestrianization for the Masses187
Locating and Sustaining Exclusivity193
CHAPTER EIGHT. TERRITORIES, GEOGRAPHIES AND DISCOURSES198
APPENDICES203
ON REPRESENTING ARCHITECTURAL TERRITORIES IN DRAWINGS203
Project Index With References204
Index of Names206
On the Author and the Team, Acknowledgements208