Research Catalog

Title

Urban real estate and the commodification of tradition / David O'Brien [and others] ; Nezar AlSayyad, series editor.

Publication

Berkeley, CA : Center for Environmental Design Research, University of California at Berkeley, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• O'Brien, David.
• Aga, Eleni K.
• Istanto, Freddy H.
• Gillem, Mark.
• AlSayyad, Nezar.
• International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments.
• University of California, Berkeley. Center for Environmental Design Research.

Description

173-247 pages : illustrations, plans; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Traditional dwellings and settlements working paper series ; v. 180

Uniform Title

Traditional dwellings and settlements working paper series ; v. 180.

Subject

• Architecture, Domestic > Thailand
• Architecture, Domestic > Greece
• Ethnic architecture > Indonesia
• Architecture, Domestic > Indonesia > Mediterranean influences
• Architecture, Domestic > Cross-cultural studies
• Architecture, Domestic > United States

Note

• Papers presented at the IASTE conference in Bangkok, Thailand in December 2006.
• Cover title.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Reality / Television: hype, tradition and everyday life in rural Thailand / David O'Brien -- Comparative assessment of traditional architecture and invented tradition: the Greek Island of Folegandros and its promotion via the internet / Eleni K. Aga -- Mediterranean architecture in Indonesia: style migration versus the adaptability of the ethnic Chinese / Freddy H. Istanto -- The new main street: hyperconsumption and the lifestyle center / Mark Gillem.

OCLC

• 192001500
• ocn192001500
• SCSB-9337596

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries