| Description |
1 online resource (v, 218 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Contents |
1. Emerging Urbanity -- 2. Urban Projects in a Global World -- 3. Tokyo Rainbow Town, Japan -- 4. The Project of the Century: Minato Mirai 21, Yokohama, Japan -- 5. The Golden City in the City of Angels: Muang Thong Thani, Bangkok, Thailand -- 6. The Focal Point of China: Lujiazui, Shanghai -- 7. The Silicon Valley of China: Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park, Beijing / Richard Marshall and Ge Zhong -- 8. Doi Moi and the Ascending Dragons of Vietnam: Hanoi North and Saigon South -- 9. New Downtown -- Ideas for the City of Tomorrow: Singapore's New Central Business District -- 10. The Making of a Malaysian Capital: Putrajaya and the Multimedia Super Corridor, Kuala Lumpur -- 11. The Idea of the City -- Critical Pasts and Futures |
| Summary |
Discussions on the global economy focus on the hyper-mobility of capital, the possibility of instantaneous transmission of information and money around the globe, the centrality of information outputs to our economic systems and emphasise the neutralisation of geography and of places. What is ignored, however, is that even the most advanced information industries need a material infrastructure of buildings and work processes, and considerable agglomeration, in order to operate in global markets. Further, the globalisation of economic activity has brought with it not only a vast dispersal of of |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-215) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
City planning -- Asia
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City planning -- Pacific Area
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City planning -- East Asia
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning.
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City planning
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Stadtentwicklung
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Stadtplanung
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East Asia
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Asia
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Pacific Area
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Ostasien
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Südostasien
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China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135159863 |
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1135159866 |
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9780203857823 |
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0203857828 |
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9780203857823 |
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