Cross-cultural urban design : global or local practice / edited by Catherin Bull [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction Cross-Cultural Practice: Why Experiment Now? -- Part 1. Re-Conceptualizing the City: -- New Ways to Read Difference -- 1.1. Finding the Identity of Place through Local Landscapes -- 1.2. Erasure, Layering, Transformation, Absorption -- 1.3. Between 'Asianization' and 'Cosmopolitanism' Housing in 21st Century Singapore -- 1.4. Dissolved Identity and Disintegrated Globalization -- 1.5. The Communal Project and the Reinforcement of Values -- 1.6. Urban Development and Context: The Traditional Landscape and Globalization in Marrakech -- 1.7. The Urban Edge: Bangkok Soi as Mediators of the Global and Local -- 1.8. Eco-Planning for Development in Northern Thailand -- 1.9. Local Identity in Bangkok's Business Districts -- Part 2. Experiments in Practice - The Dynamics of the Urban Design Project -- 2.1. Transparency in Sustainable Development: Nonghan Basin, Thailand -- 2.2. Restructuring the Medina in Tunis: El Hafsia -- 2.3. Garden Urbanism in China and New Zealand -- 2.4. Revitalizing the Montenegrin Village -- 2.5. Strategies to Support Urban Identity -- 2.6. Mediating Global and Local: The Montreal Experience -- 2.7. New Practices in Urban Development -- 2.8. Sustainable Tourism for Local Identity: The Hill-Tribe Villages of Northern Thailand -- 2.9. Making the City: The Bordeaux Experience -- Part 3. Learning Cross-Cultural Urban Design - Reflecting on Cross-Cultural Interactions -- 3.1. Casts, Roles and Scripts of Otherness -- 3.2. Analysis, Concept and the Value of Words -- 3.3. Work and /or Play? -- 3.4. Why Use English? -- 3.5. Sustainability Learnt from Difference -- 3.6. Experiencing Cross-Cultural Practice -- 3.7. Workshops as Culture -- Conclusion Urban Design for a Cross-Cultural Future.

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