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- Deals with current hot topic on high-rise living in fast-growing Asian cities - Interrogates the question of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ high-rise living environment - Offers insight to the factors that promote high-rise livability
- Analyses the sustainability of high-rise
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This book is intended to fill a knowledge gap in the study of contemporary high-rise living. While there has been much documentation on the engineering and technological aspects of tall buildings, relatively little has been written about the social and livability of high-rise. Much less is written about Asian cities even though Asia is the current hotbed of high-rise development.
Even though traditional discourse of high-rise housing is not always positive, new forces are redefining its place in 21st century urbanity. Many cities around the world are reembracing high-rise in urban agenda under current narrative of sustainable development. High-rise is fast becoming a priority area in international research agenda. The quest is for livable and sustainable high-rise development. Against the background of current trends--globalization, urbanization, mixed-use development, and new-built taller buildings in inner city areas in both developed and developing countries, this book examines the software: design, economics, estate management, legal and property rights, physical environment, planning, community development, and social dimensions of high-rise living. Analysis is with the widely acclaimed successful high-rise public housing in Hong Kong and Singapore to understand the advantages and worries of high-rise living, and to distill the key points and lessons in the making of a ‘good’ highrise living environment. Hong Kong and Singapore have been constructing high-rise for more than four decades each. The majority of their population has moved to live in high-rise, selecting to live high-rise, and registering consistently high residential satisfaction. The height of apartment buildings in both cities continues to rise. The tallest is anticipated to be 70-storey. It is the contention of this book that contrary to earlier common negative discourses on public high-rise living, the high-rise environment may yet offer urban residents a satisfying dwellingexperience. Leading housing academics, researchers and practitioners in the two cities have contributed to this book. This book presents a timely contribution to our understanding of a widening urban phenomenon that will affect a growing number of the world’s population.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: High-Rise Living in Asian Cities
Editors: Belinda Yuen, Anthony G.O. Yeh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9738-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9737-8Published: 17 February 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7683-7Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9738-5Published: 02 February 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 195
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Geography, general, Quality of Life Research, Sociology, general, Architecture, general, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences