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  • 1
    UID:
    almahu_9949508589602882
    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
    URL: Cover
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  • 2
    UID:
    almafu_9959781791902883
    Format: 1 online resource (320 p.)
    ISBN: 9783868599596
    Content: Enmeshed in Hong Kong’s densely woven urban fabric, wedged between its towering mixed-use complexes and perched along its steep hillsides, sits a network of more than 500 miniature public parks comprising the smallest unit of the city’s public open space network. Though plentiful, these so-called Sitting-out Areas – referred to locally as 三角屎坑 (literally: a “three-cornered shit pit”) – have never been considered in terms of the collective resource they have the potential to be.This book presents a series of critical essays revealing the city’s Sitting-out Areas in relation to Hong Kong’s planning histories and shifting terrains, while also tracking how these spatial fragments have been shaped by concepts of publicness, accessibility and regulation. The second half of the book presents 44 richly illustrated case studies revealing the variety and idiosyncrasies of Hong Kong’s smallest open spaces. Ultimately, the book argues that we can understand the high-density city not only through its buildings, but through the character and potency of its interstitial landscapes.
    Content: Im dichten Stadtgefüge Hongkongs, entlang steiler Hänge und eingekeilt zwischen hoch aufragenden Wohn- und Bürohochhäusern, existiert ein Netzwerk von mehr als 500 öffentlichen Miniparks. Diese Kleinsteinheiten des städtischen Freiraums, als Sitting-out Areas oder im lokalen Sprachgebrauch auch als 三角屎坑 („dreieckige Scheißgruben“) bezeichnet, wurden bislang kaum als kollektive Ressource betrachtet.Vor dem Hintergrund von Hongkongs Stadtplanungsgeschichte und dem sich ständig verändernden Grund und Boden setzen sich die Autor*innen kritisch mit den Sitting-out Areas auseinander. Sie erläutern, wie diese räumlichen Fragmente durch Konzepte der Öffentlichkeit, Zugänglichkeit und Regulierung entstanden sind. Daneben illustrieren sie in 44 reich bebilderten Fallstudien die Vielfalt und Eigenarten von Hongkongs Mini-Freiräumen – und zeigen, wie sich hochverdichtete Städte nicht nur über ihre Gebäude erfassen lassen, sondern auch über den Charakter und die Kraft ihrer Zwischenräume.
    Note: Frontmatter -- , Preface -- , Contents -- , PART 1: Contexts -- , Introduction -- , Hong Kong Terra Infirma: A City’s Defiance of Its Slippery Slopes -- , Between the In-between: Research Findings on Data-Driven Strategic Urban Design -- , On Imported Planning Policies: Adaptability and Resilience of a Small Public Open Space Typology -- , Ambiguous Topologies of Public Open Space in Hong Kong: Stairs, Alleyways, Sitting-out Areas, Parks, Playgrounds, Privately Owned Public Spaces and Vacant Lots -- , Reassembling the Case Study: Critical Analysis and Design Production in the Studio -- , PART 2: Cases -- , Index -- , Lapse -- , Misfit -- , Rift -- , Littoral -- , Gap -- , Lacuna -- , Authors -- , Acknowledgments , In English.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9783868596892
    Language: English
    Subjects: Engineering
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    Keywords: Bildband
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
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  • 3
    UID:
    b3kat_BV047397951
    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-
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