Main entry:

Smith, Peter Cookson.

Title & Author:

The urban design of impermanence : streets, places and spaces in Hong Kong = 街道與空間 : 變奏中的香港城市設計 / Peter Cookson Smith. The urban design of impermanence : streets, places and spaces in Hong Kong = Jie dao yu kong jian : bian zou zhong de Xianggang cheng shi she ji / Peter Cookson Smith.

Publication:

Hong Kong : MCCM Creations, 2006.

Description:

192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Cover title.
Machine generated contents note: Dimensions Of Urban Design In Hong Kong -- Shaping The City -- Cognitiue Understanding -- The Enigma Of Obsolescence -- Sustaining Diversity -- Patterns Of Connectivity -- Adaptation, Change And Embedded Memory -- Public Places -- Using The Past To Guide The Future -- Blending The Old Into The New -- Urbanism Versus Anti-Urbanism.
Text in English and Chinese.

Summary:

The notion of impermanence underlies, to a significant extent, the urban design language of Hong Kong. The city intensely urban environment has long reflected embedded patterns of change and temporality in both its physical and cultural dimensions, a forever reconstructed city of dislocation, adaptation and imagination. These characteristics are intrinsically interwoven within Hong Kong s street and spatial patterns, producing a special sense of immediacy and transience insinuated with the fabric and memory of the city. This may stem on one hand from a philosophy of change inherent in cultural traditions, but on the other it reflects more tangible aspects of the streetscape accumulated from historical imprints, regimes of temporarily, and the constant renewal and transformation of the urban environment.

ISBN:

9889865378 (pbk.)
9789889865375 (pbk.)

Subject:

Streets China Hong Kong.
Public spaces China Hong Kong.
Open spaces China Hong Kong.
City planning China Hong Kong.
Rues Chine Hongkong.
Espaces publics Chine Hongkong.
Espaces verts Chine Hongkong.
Design urbain Chine Hongkong.
City planning.
Open spaces.
Public spaces.
Streets.
Öffentlicher Raum
Stadtgestaltung
Städtebau
Zeichnung
China Hong Kong.
Hongkong

Added entries:

Streets, places and spaces in Hong Kong
Jie dao yu kong jian : bian zou zhong de Xianggang cheng shi she ji
Bian zou zhong de Xianggang cheng shi she ji
The urban design of impermanence : streets, places and spaces in Hong Kong = 街道與空間 : 變奏中的香港城市設計 / Peter Cookson Smith.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256185
Call No.: BIB 186503
Status: Available