Colonial and imperial legacies of the modern global city
By: Mary Padua [and others]
Contributors: Wu, Pingsheng; Liu, Yishi; Chung, Thomas; International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments; University of California, Berkeley. Center for Environmental Design Research
Series: Traditional dwellings and settlements working paper series -- v. 199; Traditional dwellings and settlements working paper series -- v. 199.
Publisher: International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Landscape architecture; Congresses; Vernacular gardens; City planning; History; Japanese Architecture; British colonial Architecture
Notes: Cover title.

Papers presented at the IASTE conference in Oxford, England in December 2008.

"Center for Environmental Design Research ... University of California at Berkeley"--P. [1] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Contested Chinese identity : modernism and fundamentalism in contemporary landscape design / Mary Padua; title: Wandering in a traditional city of colonial Taiwan : a study on the urban transformation of Taipei, 1895-1945 / Ping-Sheng Wu; title: Other modernities : rise of a Japanese colonial capital city, 1932-1937 / Yishi Liu; title: Curative re-use of historical monuments : rehabilitating Hong Kong's Central Police Station Compound for temporary use / Thomas Chung.