Public Places in Asia Pacific Cities. Current Issues and Strategies

392 Pages·70.81 MB·english

by  Pu Miao (ред.)

Public Places in Asia Pacific Cities
The GeoJournal Library
Volume 60
Managing Editor: Max Barlow, Concordia University,
Montreal, Canada
Founding Series Editor:
Wolf Tietze, Helmstedt, Germany
Editorial Board: Paul Claval, France
R.G. Crane, U.S.A.
Yehuda Gradus, Israel
Risto Laulajainen, Sweden
Gerd LOttig, Germany
Walther Manshard, Germany
Osamu Nishikawa, Japan
Peter Tyson, South Africa
Herman van der Wusten, The Netherlands
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
Public Places in
Asia Pacific Cities
Current Issues and Strategies
edited by
PU MIAO
School of Architecture,
University of Hawaii at Manoa,
Honolulu, U.S.A.
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress
ISBN 978-90-481-5739-6 ISBN 978-94-017-2815-7 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-2815-7
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Asia Pacific region, countries and areas indicated are studied in this book.
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Asia Pacific region, countries and areas indicated are studied in this book.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
List of Contributors Xl
Introduction 1
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I. Unique Public Places of the Asia Pacific Region
1. The Waterfront as a Public Place in Tokyo 49
Hidenobu Jinnai
2. The Street Market as an Urban Facility in Hong Kong 71
Hikaru Kinoshita
3. The Roles of the Plaza: The Philippine Experience 87
Norma I. Alarcon
4. Japanese Public Space as Defined by Event 107
Tanya Hidaka and Mamoru Tanaka
5. Rukun and Gotong Royong: Managing Public Places in an
Indonesian Kampung 119
Dwita Hadi Rahmi, Bambang Hari Wibisono and Bakti Setiawan
II. Problems in Public Space
6. The Vanishing Streets in the Malaysian Urbanscape 137
Ahmad Bashri Sulaiman and Suhana Shamsuddin
7. Endangered Street Life: Building Frontages and Street Activities
in Hanoi 151
Andre Casault
8. The Quest for Better Public Space: A Critical Review of
Urban Hong Kong 171
Charlie Q.L. Xue and Kevin K.K. Manuel
9. Public Domain, Private Interest - Social Space in Hong Kong 191
Alexander R. Cuthbert and Keith G. McKinnell
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III. New Design/Planning Strategies
10. Architecture in the Pacific Century 215
Chris Abel
11. Multi-Dimensional Planning and Public Space in the Philippines 237
Grace C. Ramos
12. Place-Making and the New Mobility of Asian Cities: The Bangkok Plan 257
Gary Hack
13. Design with High-Density: A Chinese Perspective 273
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14. A Question of Local Models: Public Spaces in Mae Hong Son, Thailand 295
Barry Bell
15. The Alley as a Spiritual Axis for the Community: The Hikifune
Project, Tokyo 311
Schun Hagiwara
16. Vision of a 21st-Century Public Place: GigaWorld, KL LinearCity,
Kuala Lumpur 331
David Chew
17. The Next Generation of Singapore's Public Space: The New Downtown 349
Jeffrey K.H. Chan
Bibliography 367
Index 381
Acknowledgments
This volume would not have come into being without the support of a grant from
the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago. The con
tributors made the editing an enlightening process to me. W.H. Raymond Yeh,
Dean of my School, encouraged me to start this project and has constantly suppor
ted it. Gary Hack and Peter Walker rendered valuable help during the preparation.
Jack T. Sidener, Reginald Y.W. Kwok, and Christopher Yip kindly commented
on portions of the manuscript. Petra van Steenbergen at Kluwer Academic Pub
lishers provided valuable advice in publishing the book which, in its final form,
was nicely designed by Jolanda Karada. My appreciation also goes to Gabrielle
Welford, Tammy Carroll, Heidi Chang, Stephanie Wong, and Joo Cheong for their
assistance in the editing. Finally I would like to personally dedicate this book to the
late Mr. Chao-yung Tung, a generous supporter of intellectual exchange between
the East and the West.
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List of Contributors
Chris Abel is an architectural theorist and writer, living in Malta. He has taught
at major universities throughout the world and specializes in 20th-century Asia
Pacific architecture.
Norma I. Alarcon is an architect and an Associate Professor of Architecture at
the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, the Philippines. She has written on the
architectural history of the Philippines and historic preservation in the Philippines.
Barry Bell is an architect and formally an Associate Professor at the School of
Architecture, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has researched on public
places in both France and Thailand.
Andre Casault is an architect and an Assistant Professor at the School of Architec
ture, Faculty of Planning, Architecture and Visual Arts, Laval University, Quebec,
Canada. He has conducted research on urban planning and housing in Beijing and
Hanoi.
Jeffrey K.H. Chan is with the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI
Arc), Los Angeles, USA.
David Chew is the Managing Director of KL LinearCity, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
He has extensive achievements in infrastructure engineering, business administra
tion, and property development in Asian cities.
Alexander R. Cuthbert is a Professor and the Head of School of Planning and
Urban Development, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South
Wales, Sydney, Australia. He has published extensively on the political aspects of
urban form and planning processes. He also practices urban design and planning
internationally.
Gary Hack is the Dean and Paley Professor of the Graduate School of Fine Arts,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. In addition to his publications, he
has been responsible for numerous urban design plans at a variety of scales and
locations.
Schun Hagiwara is a Professor of Social Policy and Administration at Hosei Uni
versity, Tokyo, Japan and an Adjunct Professor of Urban and Regional Planning
at Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA. He is also an architect and the
President of Urban Matrix: Research & Design Associates, Inc., Tokyo.
Tanya Hidaka is a Professor of Architecture at Nihon University, Chiba, Japan
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