Eco-urbanism and the South East Asian city : climate, urban-architectural form and heritage

Eco-urbanism and the South East Asian city : climate, urban-architectural form and heritage / Shireen Jahn Kassim, Noor Hanita Abdul Majid, Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, editors.

This book traces the history of urban design in tropical South East Asia with a view to offering solutions to contemporary architectural and urban problems. The book examines how pre-colonial forms and patterns from South East Asian traditional cities, overlaid by centuries of change, recall present...

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Other Authors: Kassim, Shireen Jahn (Editor), Noor Hanita Abdul Majid (Editor), Dzulkifli Abdul Razak (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Subjects:
Architecture > Southeast Asia.
Cities and towns > Southeast Asia.
Architecture and climate > Southeast Asia.
Sustainable architecture > Southeast Asia.
Architecture
Architecture and climate
Cities and towns
Sustainable architecture
Southeast Asia
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1
  • Chapter 1-Eco-Inflections of the 'Mandalic' form: Morphologies of the Pre-colonial Urban Cores
  • Chapter 2-River, And Microclimatic: Ameliorations and Accretions of the Ancient Urban Grain
  • Chapter 3-The Mound, the Hill, and the Malay Nusantara Historic Landscape
  • Chapter 4-The Malay 'garden city': an ethos of Malay historic urbanism
  • Chapter 5-Bioclimatic Alignments of the Alun Alun: A Genealogy of Nusantara open space
  • Chapter 6-Traditional Compactness of South East Asia Urban Core: Walkability of the Early Public Realm
  • Chapter 7-Reminiscing Fauna's role in the 'Eco-Sanctuaries' of Traditional cities: A Southeast Asian historical perspective
  • Part 2
  • Chapter 8-From Archipelago to Architecture: City, the Sacred Center and the Pillared Space
  • Chapter 9-The 'Punctured' Pavilions
  • Chapter 10-Climate and archetype: Vernacular house-forms as tropical urban ideations
  • Chapter 11-The Matriarch, The Matrilineal System and The Minangkabau Rumah Gadang
  • Chapter 12-Permutations of the layered portico: Tropical typologies and bioclimatic forms
  • Chapter 13-In The Sanctity of Light And Shadows In Traditional Mosques
  • Part 3
  • Chapter 14-Re-acculturising the Tropical City : from theory to practice
  • Chapter 15-Marking boundaries of water and land: Bridges and gateways
  • Chapter 16-Ecology, language and the regalia: structure, ornament and architecture
  • Chapter 17-Tracing water-land architectural symbolisms of the Malay Nusantara
  • Chapter 18-Vernacular Typography as Reflections of the Nusantara - Cultural Inflections in Street Vendor Signages
  • Chapter 19-Epilogue: Sustainability, 'Sejahtera' and the South East Asian Continuum.

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