The disappearing 'Asian' city
Subtitle: protecting Asia's urban heritage in a globalizing world
By: edited by William S. Logan
Contributors: Logan, William Stewart, 1942-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Asia; City planning -- Asia; Historic preservation -- Asia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-279) and index
Table of contents: title: Globalization, cultural identity, and heritage / William S. Logan; title: Manila's intramuros: storming the walls / Fergus T. Maclaren and Augusto Villalon; title: Shanghai reincarnated / Susan Balderstone, Quian Fenqi, and Zhang Bing; title: Too little, too late? Urban planning and conservation in Phnom Penh, Cambodia / William Chapman; title: Vientiane, Laos: Lane Xang's capital in the age of modernization and globalization / William S. Logan, Colin Long, and Roz Hansen; title: Seoul, Republic of Korea: removing the reminders of colonialism / Hae Un Rii; title: Nagasaki, Japan's window to the west: protecting its western heritage / Joseph G. Hajdu; title: Calcutta, India: heritage and government priorities / Santosh Ghosh; title: Searching for Semarang: nation, urban memory, and cultural heritage / Joost Coté; title: Yangon, Myanmar: the re-invention of heritage / Than Than Nwe and Janette Philp; title: The golden Hanoi and heritage protection in Vietnam's capital: containing cultural globalization / William S. Logan; title: Heritage as hologram: Hong Kong after a change in sovereignty, 1997-2001 / Jeffrey W. Cody; title: George Town, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia: development strategies and community relations / Khoo Salma Nasution and Gwynn Jenkins; title: The challenge of co-existence: the meaning of urban heritage in contemporary Bangkok / Marc Askew; title: Protecting Asia's urban heritage: the way forward / Renate Howe and William S. Logan