Emerging Asian Cities
Contributors
Noman Ahmed is an architect and planner and currently Chairman of the Architecture and Planning Department at NED University in Karachi. He has led research studies on developmental issues as a consultant to NGOs, CBOs and government organizations in Pakistan and abroad. He is the author of Water Supply in Karachi: Issues and Prospects (Oxford University Press.)
Vinayak Bharne is a joint adjunct faculty of urban design at the Sol Price School of Public Policy and School of Architecture at University of Southern California in Los Angeles; and the director of design at Moule & Polyzoides Architects & Urbanists. He is the co-author of Re-Discovering the Hindu Temple: The Sacred Architecture & Urbanism of India (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012), and the contributing author of several books including Planning Los Angeles (APA, 2012) and Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture (010 Publishers, 2011).
Manish Chalana is an assistant professor of urban design and planning at the University of Washington. His work focuses on planning history, historic preservation planning, and international planning and development, particularly in India. He has published on these topics in CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship, Journal of Architectural Education, Preservation Education & Research and Future Anterior, among others.
Robert Cowherd is an associate professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston. He has published several works on the interplay of urban space, culture and politics including “Constructing Discourse, Construction Space,” Heterotopia and the City (Routledge 2008). His open-source village planning model was adopted by Aceh Province for post-tsunami reconstruction in 2005.
Hanif Daud is the founder of ICON Architects, an architecture and urban design practice in Karachi, Pakistan. He was a former SPURS fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he specialized in historic preservation and urban renewal. He is the recipient of first Biennial IAP Awards: “Excellence in Architecture” by the Institute of Architects, Pakistan (2005).
Mari Fujita is an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture and principal of Fujitawork, a Vancouver-based design practice. She is the co-editor of Vancouver Matters, a book examining specific material conditions within the context and processes of Vancouver.
Pilwon Han is a professor of architecture at Hannam University in Korea. He has done substantial research on traditional settlements and historic cities in East Asia. He is the author of many books including In Search of Traditional Korean Villages (Humanist Publishing Group, 2011, Seoul) and numerous journal articles on the East Asian architecture and urbanism.
Jeffrey Hou is an associate professor and chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington, Seattle. His work focuses on community design, design activism, and contemporary urbanism in Asia. He is the author and editor of Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities (Routledge, 2010) and a contributor to several books including Companion to Urban Design (Routledge, 2011).
Aseem Inam is director of the Theories of Urban Practice Program and associate professor of Urbanism at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. He is the author of the book, Planning for the Unplanned: Recovering from Crises in Megacities (Routledge, 2005), and Meaningful Urban Design: Teleological / Catalytic / Relevant, an award-winning essay published in the Journal of Urban Design (2002).
Abidin Kusno is an associate professor at the Institute of Asian Research at University of British Columbia where he holds Canada Research Chair in Asian Urbanism and Culture. He is the author of Behind the Postcolonial (Routledge, 2000) and The Appearances of Memory (Duke University Press, 2010).
Zhongjie Lin is an associate professor of architecture and urbanism at University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a co-founder of Futurepolis, a multidisciplinary design firm. His research focuses on architectural avant-garde movements, theories of urban design, and contemporary urbanism in Asia. He is the author of Kenzo Tange and the MetabolistMovement: Urban Utopias of Modern Japan (Routledge, 2010) and co-author of Urban Design in the Global Perspective (CABP, 2006).
M. Victoria Liptak is associate dean of the Woodbury University School of Architecture. Her research interests include the pedagogy of critical thinking and creativity, faculty teaching effectiveness, and rapid modernization in Turkey.
Kasama Polakit is an assistant professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida Atlantic University, USA. Her research interests include Southeast Asian Urbanism, Transnational place-making, and the roles of the built environment in the production and reproduction of social and cultural capital. She is the author of Bangkok Streetlife: Urbanism, Culture, and Communities (VDM 2010)
Nick Roberts is a professor at Woodbury University in Los Angeles, where he teaches architecture and urbanism. He established the School of Architecture’s India program, and has led the School’s China program since 2006. He is the author of Places of Worship (John Wiley 2004); his current research and publications focus on the edge conditions of the contemporary city in Europe and Asia.
Christa Salamandra is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, and a visiting professor at The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, Sweden. She is the author of A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria (Indiana University Press, 2004), and numerous articles on Arab media.
Aseel Sawalha is an associate professor of anthropology at Fordham University in New York. Her research focuses on the politics of memory and urban spaces in Beirut, Lebanon as well as women and the arts movement in New York City and Amman, Jordan. She is the author of Reconstructing Beirut: Memory and Space in a Postwar Arab City (University of Texas Press, 2010), and many other academic articles.
Eric Schuldenfrei is a Founding Partner of ESKYIU, an architecture practice in Hong Kong. He recently served as the Curator for Exhibition, Education, Film, and Media for the 2009 Hong Kong-Shenzhen Biennale. He co-edited the book Instant Culture (2011) with Marisa Yiu and is a contributing author to Highrise - Ideal and Reality (2011).
Brettany Shannon is a doctoral student in Urban Planning and Development at the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on how art in the public realm promotes community development. She holds undergraduate degrees in Sociology and Psychology from Vanderbilt University.
Peter Cookson Smith is an architect, planner and urban designer, and the founder of Urbis Limited, one of the first specialist planning, urban design and landscape consultancies in S.E. Asia. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong 2000-2004, and is currently President of the Hong Kong Institute of Planners. His publications include The Urban Design of Impermanence (MCCM Publications, 2006) and The Urban Design of Concession (MCCM Publications, 2011).
Seth Thompson is an assistant professor of design at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, and a media artist involved in documenting and interpreting art, design and culture through print and online presentations. His documentaries “Evolving Traditions: Artists Working in New Media” and “Outside the Box: New Cinematic Experiences” have been aired across the United States and internationally.
Marisa Yiu is an assistant professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong architect and a Founding Partner of ESKYIU. She served as the Chief Curator of the 2009 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture and co-edited Instant Culture (MCCM Creations, 2011) with Eric Schuldenfrei. She is contributing author of Port Cities: Dynamic Landscapes and Global Networks (Routledge, 2011).
Vesta Nele Zareh is an architect and journalist, and currently a research assistant at the Laboratory for Integrative Architecture at the Technical University Berlin and a project leader at LIN Architects & Urbanists. Her thesis is examining the role of planning as a political instrument, evaluating the case study of the Tehran Comprehensive Plan by Victor Gruen and Abdol Aziz Farman-Farmaian. She is the author of numerous articles on urban planning tools and political strategies for urban development with a focus on Europe, the Middle East and Iran.
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