Historical and global perspective on the built environment
By: Yasser Elsheshtawy [and others]
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 -- v. 209; Traditional dwellings and settlements working paper series -- v. 209.
Publisher: International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Architecture and globalization; Congresses; Human settlements; Vernacular architecture; City planning; Social aspects
Other titles: Historical and global perspectives on the built environment
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"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Politicizing tradition : the reconstruction of Abu Dhabi's Central Market / Yasser Elsheshtawy; title: Interrogating tradition : prisms of supermodernity / Diane Wildsmith; title: The tradition of 'Islamic architecture' : from Western construction to Eastern champion / Reem Alissa; title: Form, language and derivations : the urban landscape of "Praça XV" in Brazilian contemporary mesh / Cristiane Duarte, Ethel Pinheiro, and Katia De Paula; title: Hybrid processes in Sarawak : 100 years of indigenization, institutional architecture, and settlement patterns from 1841 / John Ting.