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Asian alleyways: An urban vernacular in times of globalization
(Marie GIBERT-FLUTRE and Heide IMAI)
CHAPTER 1 Between 'network' and 'territory': Ho Chi Minh City's
alleyways as challenged liminal spaces (Marie GIBERT-FLUTRE)
CHAPTER 2 Street-corner society and everyday politics in the
Beijing hutong: Ethnographic perspectives (Judith AUDIN)
CHAPTER 3 Alleyways between urban renewal, cultural innovation, and
social integration: The cases of Tokyo and Seoul (Heide IMAI)
CHAPTER 4 The transformation of 'urban ordinaries' into creative
places: A case study of Bangkok's alleyway neighbourhoods
(Wimonrart ISSARATHUMNOON)
CHAPTER 5 Shanghai lilong: From everyday life to conceived space
(Jiayu DING and Xiaohua ZHONG)
CHAPTER 6 From conflicts to commoning: Alleyways as sites for
social innovations in Taipei (Jeffrey HOU)
CHAPTER 7 Magic Lanes: A placemaking approach for laneway spaces in
Hong Kong (Melissa CATE CHRIST and Hendrik TIEBEN)
The future of Asian alleyways: Towards integrated and diverse
alleyways (Heide IMAI and Marie GIBERT-FLUTRE)
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Dr. Marie Gibert-Flutre is Assistant Professor of Geography in the Department of East Asia Studies (LCAO) at the University of Paris. Dr. Heide Imai is Associate Professor at Senshu University, Faculty of Intercultural Communication, Tokyo, Japan.
"The rich ethnographic data provide insights into how to address
the central question posed in the book, which asks what the future
roles and functions of the old alleyways are in the modern city.
Each chapter elucidates the potential of alleyways by examining
their transformations and functions, explaining the conflicts and
initiatives, and underlining concerns and uncertainties. Together,
they develop new perspectives on the laneways through the concepts
of marginalization and reintegration. [...] Asian Alleyways opens
up questions that will interest architects, urban planners and
designers, as well as policymakers interested in the spatial
qualities and dynamics of these alleyways."
- Ha Minh Hai Thai, School of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT
University, Melbourne, Journal of Urban Design, 2021
"Within the mainstream study of cities, East Asian and everyday
ordinary spaces, forms of long vernacular traditions, remain
less-known urbanity. Asian Alleyways contributes to this field
within cross-cultural dialogue and lenses of ubiquitous semi
public-semi private urban spaces. Focusing on the Other, which
escapes the globalisation and current verticalization processes,
where intimate scale, a vibrant urban life and dwelling defines
alternative urban spaces the book takes a case study approach to
diverse human scale emergent urbanism. The book is an engaging
review of East Asian alleyways that instigates discussion beyond
nostalgia, exploring possibilities qualities and relevance of local
processes of ordinary urban landscapes and contributes to
broadening theoretical questions."
- Milica MuminoviC, PhD, Lecturer, Architecture, Faculty of Arts
and Design, University of Canberra
"Asian Alleyways make an important contribution to Urban Studies at
two levels. At the micro and local scale, alleyways exist as
extensions of the home, and are intimate spaces of the self and the
community of users. The informality and intimacy enable such spaces
to be creatively managed resulting in dynamic mixes of different
uses. At the metropolitan scale, alleys and lanes as traditional
spatial forms have an uneasy existence in the modern city. The
different chapters of Asian Alleyways highlight the important local
textures that go into the making of city character and yet
alleywaysare under threat from redevelopment and gentrification as
Asian cities undergo rapid change."
- K.C. Ho, Associate Professor of Sociology and Research Leader,
Asian Urbanisms, Asia Research Institute, National University of
Singapore.
"This dynamic collection brings to life the hidden veins of
contemporary urbanity by focusing on an array of alleyways across
different cities in Asia. In interweaving colourful sensory aspects
of these passages with both granular insights and broad structural
critique, Gibert-Flutre and Imai have assembled a multidisciplinary
arsenal of chapters that opportunely punctuate and challenge
state-of-the-art debates on urbanization in the region and beyond.
A must-read and a valuable resource for researchers and students of
urban studies, sustainability and everyday life."
- Dr Kelvin E.Y. Low, Associate Professor/ Deputy Head Of
Department, Department Of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social
Sciences National University of Singapore
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