Heteroglossic Asia : The Transformation of Urban Taiwan (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design)

Lin, Francis Chia-Hui

Routledge（2015/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 170 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781138800939
• DDC分類 307.1160951249

Full Description

Heteroglossic Asia presents an analysis of geographic, historical, cultural, economic, spatial and political factors underlying Taiwan's maritime urbanity by means of case studies based on Taipei and Kaohsiung; two cities which represent the multi-accentual character of Taiwan's urban environment and its recent changes and development through architecture.

Focussing on the concept of a heteroglossic Asia Pacific, exemplified by the analysis of Taiwan's urban transformation, the study argues that Taiwan's urban environment shows a form of intended "fuzziness" which cannot be described as resting on either a simplified nationalist base or chaotic societal anxiety. Rather, this form lies between binary poles: autocracy and democracy, nation state and day-to-day life, top-down and bottom-up orientations, orthodoxy and hybridisation.

Contents

1. A Quasi-Colonial Context, 2. Hong Kong, 3. Singapore, 4. Taiwan, 5. When the Otherness becomes Selfness, 6. Theorising Urban Architecture for the Asia Pacific, 7. A Paradigm of the Contemporary Urban Asia Pacific, Conclusion