Research Catalog

Title

Colonial and imperial legacies of the modern global city / Mary Padua [and others].

Publication

Berkeley, Calif. : International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

• Padua, Mary.
• Wu, Pingsheng.
• Liu, Yishi.
• Chung, Thomas.
• International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments.
• University of California, Berkeley. Center for Environmental Design Research.

Description

95 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Traditional dwellings and settlements working paper series ; v. 199

Uniform Title

Traditional dwellings and settlements working paper series ; v. 199.

Subjects

• Landscape architecture > Social aspects > China > Congresses
• Architecture, British colonial > Social aspects > China > Hong Kong > Congresses
• City planning > Social aspects > China > Changchun (Jilin Sheng) > History > Congresses
• Architecture, Japanese > China > Changchun (Jilin Sheng) > History > Congresses
• City planning > Social aspects > Taiwan > Taipei > History > Congresses
• Vernacular gardens > Social aspects > China > Congresses

Note

• Cover title.
• Papers presented at the IASTE conference in Oxford, England in December 2008.
• "Center for Environmental Design Research ... University of California at Berkeley"--P. [1] of cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Contested Chinese identity : modernism and fundamentalism in contemporary landscape design / Mary Padua -- Wandering in a traditional city of colonial Taiwan : a study on the urban transformation of Taipei, 1895-1945 / Ping-Sheng Wu -- Other modernities : rise of a Japanese colonial capital city, 1932-1937 / Yishi Liu -- Curative re-use of historical monuments : rehabilitating Hong Kong's Central Police Station Compound for temporary use / Thomas Chung.

OCLC

• 320406722
• ocn320406722
• SCSB-9337128

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries