Cross-Cultural Urban Design: Global or Local Practice?

Abstract

Introduction Cross-Cultural Practice: Why Experiment Now? Part 1: Re-Conceptualizing the City: New Ways to Read Difference 1.1. Finding the Identity of Place through Local Landscapes 1.2 Erasure, Layering, Transformation, Absorption 1.3 between 'Asianization' and 'Cosmopolitanism' Housing in 21st Century Singapore 1.4 Dissolved Identity and Disintegrated Globalization 1.5 The Communal Project and the Reinforcement of Values 1.6 Urban Development and Context: The Traditional Landscape and Globalization in Marrakech 1.7. The Urban Edge: Bangkok Soi as Mediators of the Global and Local 1.8. Eco-Planning for Development in Northern Thailand 1.9. Local Identity in Bangkok's Business Districts Part 2: Experiments in Practice - The Dynamics of the Urban Design Project 2.1. Transparency in Sustainable Development: Nonghan Basin, Thailand 2.2. Restructuring the Medina in Tunis: El Hafsia 2.3. Garden Urbanism in China and New Zealand 2.4. Revitalizing the Montenegrin Village 2.5 Strategies to Support Urban Identity 2.6. Mediating Global and Local: The Montreal Experience 2.7. New Practices in Urban Development 2.8. Sustainable Tourism for Local Identity: The Hill-Tribe Villages of Northern Thailand 2.9. Making the City: The Bordeaux Experience Part 3: Learning Cross-Cultural Urban Design - Reflecting on Cross-Cultural Interactions 3.1 Casts, Roles and Scripts of Otherness 3.2 Analysis, Concept and the Value of Words 3.3 Work and/or Play? 3.4 Why Use English? 3.5. Sustainability Learnt from Difference 3.6. Experiencing Cross-Cultural Practice 3.7. Workshops as Culture. Conclusion Urban Design for a Cross-Cultural Future

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