{"product_id":"9781861892492","title":"East Asia Modern: Shaping the Contemporary City","description":"\u003cbr\u003eAn exciting explosion of urban expansion is occurring in East Asia: cities such as Singapore, Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing, and Shanghai are expanding at a prodigious rate and bringing widespread change to the region. Peter G. Rowe's \u003ci\u003eEast Asia Modern\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely comparative analysis of urban growth in this rapidly evolving part of the globe.\u003cp\u003eA renowned scholar on East Asian architecture and urbanism, Peter G. Rowe examines how the unique modernizing process of East Asian cities can be most usefully understood. Rowe offers a historical assessment of the region, chronicling the cities' development over the last century and setting into context their individual paths toward becoming modern. Rowe explains what the modernizing process has meant for the cultural diffusion of predominantly Western ideas, how East Asian urban regions have developed a distinct type of modernity, and what lessons can be gleaned from the contemporary East Asian experience. Refuting many common misconceptions about contemporary East Asian life, \u003ci\u003eEast Asia Modern\u003c\/i\u003e offers a readable critical assessment of life in modern East Asia while also pointing to possibilities for the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reaktion Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039464898800,"sku":"9781861892492","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781861892492_p0.jpg?v=1763600926","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781861892492","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}