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Format: 1 online resource (264 pages) : , 32 b&w illustrations

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-8248-9437-5

Content: In the twenty-first century, infrastructure has undergone a seismic shift from West to East. Once concentrated in Europe and North America, global infrastructure production today is focused squarely on Asia. Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia investigates the deeper implications of that pivot to the East. Written by leading international infrastructure experts, it demonstrates how new roads, airports, pipelines, and cables are changing Asian economies, societies, and geopolitics—from the Bosporus to Beijing, and from Indonesia to the Arctic. Ten tightly interwoven case studies powerfully illustrate infrastructure’s leading role in three global paradigm shifts: climate change, digitalization, and China’s emergence as a superpower.Combining social science methods with mapping techniques from the design professions, Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia establishes a dialogue between academic research on infrastructure and the professional insights of those responsible for infrastructure’s planning, production, and operation. By applying that mixed method to transport, energy, telecommunication, and resource extraction projects across Asia, the book synthesizes research on infrastructure from six academic fields, while making those insights accessible to a wider audience of students, professionals, and the general public.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , I: Materiality -- , 1. Rise of the Sinocene? China as a Geological Agent -- , 2 Geosocial Formations and the Petroleumscaping of Singapore: Underground Landscapes as Infrastructural Territories -- , 3 A Floating Power Plant: Provisional Energy Infrastructure and Afro-Asian Connections -- , II: Territory -- , 4 Peripheral Infrastructure: The Electrification of Indonesia’s Borderlands -- , 5. Local Reservoirs and Chinese Aqueducts: The Politics of Water Security in Hong Kong -- , 6 Teleview and the Aspirations of the Infrastructural State in Singapore -- , III: Networks -- , 7 From Creation City to Infrastructural Urbanism: The Chinese National New Area as an Infrastructure Space -- , 8 Road’s End: Lines and Spaces across a Divided High Asia -- , 9 Motorbike Taxi Drivers, Ride-Share Apps, and the Modern Streetscape in Vietnam -- , 10 Technical Experts and the Production of China’s Airport Infrastructure -- , Afterword: Infrastructural Futures -- , Contributors , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8248-9292-5

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8248-9291-7

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780824894375

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Format: 383 Seiten , Illustrationen , 18 cm

ISBN: 9780648685876 , 064868587X

Content: "Planet City is a project by Los Angeles-based film director and architect Liam Young, exploring the productive potential of extreme densification, in a speculative future where ten billion people surrender the rest of the planet to a global wilderness. It imagines a radical reversal of planetary sprawl, where the world's population retreats from our vast network of cities and entangled supply chains into one hyper-dense metropolis housing the entire population of the earth. It is a vision of the future that runs counter to our current world, where humans dominate the planet. Where centuries of colonisation, globalisation and never-ending economic extraction and expansionism has remade the world from the scale of the cell to the tectonic plate. Although wildly provocative, Planet City eschews the techno-utopian fantasy of designing a new world order. This is not a neo-colonial masterplan to be imposed from a singular seat of power. It is a work of critical architecture - a speculative fiction grounded in statistical analysis, research and traditional knowledge. It is a collaborative work of multiple voices and cultures supported by an international team of acclaimed environmental scientists, theorists and advisors. In Planet City we see that climate change is no longer a technological problem, but rather an ideological one, rooted in culture and politics. This is a fiction shaped like a city. Simultaneously an extraordinary image of tomorrow and an urgent examination of the environmental questions facing us today."--Back cover

Note: Impressum: "Planet City was commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria for the NGV Triennial 2020"

Language: English

Keywords: Architektur ; Verstädterung ; Utopie ; Globalisierung ; Exhibition catalogs

Author information: Hopkinson, Nalo 1960-

Author information: Robinson, Kim Stanley 1952-

Author information: Sassen, Saskia 1947-