TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bull,Catherin Jane
TI  - Cross-cultural urban design: global or local practice 
SN  - 0415432790
AV  - HT166 .C764 2007
U1  - 307.1216 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - City planning
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Globalization
N1  - 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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