The resilience of tradition
By: Faedah Totah, James Miller, Keng Hua Chong and Mihye Cho, Shu-Mei Huang
Contributors: 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 -- volume 261; Traditional dwellings and settlements working paper series -- v. 261.
Publisher: IASTE; CEDR
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
Subjects: Historic districts; Congresses; Government policy; Vernacular architecture; Land settlement patterns; Public spaces; Urban elderly; Indigenous peoples; Dwellings; Architecture and society
Notes: Cover title.

Selected papers from the 2014 IASTE Conference.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Living with tradition in the old city of Damascus / Faedah Totah; title: Resilience found through the identity of place: a traditional settlement pattern in post-disaster Haiti / James Miller; title: Appropriating traditions in contested space: placemaking by the elderly in Singapore and Seoul / Keng Hua Chong and Mihye Cho; title: Revamping tradition: contested politics of the "indigenous" in postcolonial Hong Kong / Shu-Mei Huang.