Gregory Bracken, Paul Rabé, R. Parthasarathy, Neha Sami, Bing Zhang

Gebundenes Buch

Future Challenges of Cities in Asia

Beschreibung

The ten essays in this book engage with some of the most critical urban questions of the near future across Asia.

Autor

Gregory Bracken is Assistant Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at TU Delft and one of the co-founders of Footprint, the journal dedicated to architecture theory. From 2009 to 2015 he was a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Leiden where he co-founded the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA). His publications include >The Shanghai Alleyway House: A Vanishing Urban Vernacular >(2013), >Asian Cities: Colonial to Global> (2015), >Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West> (2020), and >Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West> (2019). Paul Rabé is Academic Coordinator of the Cities Cluster at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden as well as overall coordinator of the Urban Knowledge Network Asia (UKNA) and the River Cities Network: Engaging with Waterways in the Anthropocene (RCN). Paul is also series editor of Amsterdam University Press's Asian Cities Book Series, and is Lead Expert in Urban Land Governance at the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he is also joint coordinator of the Urban Environment, Sustainability, and Climate Change academic track. A political scientist by training, with a doctoral degree (2009) in policy, planning and development from the University of Southern California's Sol Price School of Public Policy, Paul has over 25 years of experience in advisory work, capacity development, research, and teaching on urban policy topics, focused on urban land governance and the intersection of land (use) and the management of water and water bodies in urban and peri-urban areas. Dr. R. Parthasarathy is a MEGA Chair Professor and Director, Gujarat Institute of Development Research. Dr. Neha Sami is Senior Academic and Research Consultant at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. Dr. Bing Zhang is the Chief Planner of the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design and Adjunct Professor at Tongji and Tianjin Universities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 619g
• ISBN-13: 9789463728812
• ISBN-10: 9463728813
• Artikelnr.: 56929334