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The book examines the contemporary Asian city through the prism of urban design in assimilating new and established drivers of growth. This includes intensified forms of residential development, specialised commercial centres and technology parks, that drive the momentum of the contemporary city, while acting to restructure and reshape forms of capital investment. New spatial patterns are facilitated by tranches of urban expansion, redevelopme...

The book takes as its starting point the city of Canton, at the heart of the most populous built-up metropolitan area in Mainland China, and a city that has for several centuries held a central position with regard to economic, social, and physical change in the country.

The book focusses initially on the philosophical, artistic and scientific forces that impacted on the humanism of the late Medieval and Renaissance period.

An imaginative means of looking at the city of Barcelona and its modern history from a new perspective, a series of drawings injected within the text, illustrating growth and change in the city fabric over almost two hundred years.

The Urban Design of Concession charts the evolution of twelve Chinese treaty ports from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

The Urban Design of Impermanence exudes Hong Kong's high density urban values through hundreds of sketches and many essays.

The book presents an overview of Asian urbanism and outlines 20 case studies of Asian cities.