Livability and Sustainability of Urbanism: An Interdisciplinary Study on History and Theory of Urban Settlement

by Bagoes Wiryomartono

Overview

This book is a fascinating, wide-reaching interdisciplinary examination of urbanism in the context of humanities and social sciences research, comprising cutting-edge theoretical and empirical investigations of urban livability and sustainability. Urban livability is explored as a phenomenon of happenings that gather people, things, and domains in the specific spatiotemporal context of the city; this context is the life-world of urbanism. Meanwhile, sustainability is conceived of as the capacity of urbanism that enables people to cultivate their sociocultural and economic existence and development without the depletion of their current resources in the future. In this study, phenomenology is uniquely incorporated as a way of seeing things according to their presence in space and time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789811389719
Publisher:	Springer Nature Singapore
Publication date:	07/10/2019
Edition description:	1st ed. 2020
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Bagoes Wiryomartono is an independent scholar and currently on leave Faculty Member at the School of Design, University of Pelita Harapan, Karawaci Tangerang, Indonesia. He was Postdoctoral Fellow for architecture at the East-West Center, Honolulu and Fulbright Scholar at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. He previously has worked as Senior Lecturer at the Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia; Visiting Research Associate at the Asian Institute, University of Toronto, Canada; and Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. His teaching and research experience is focused on history, theory, and design of urbanism of various cultures and traditions in Southeast Asia and North America. He is author of Javanese Culture and the Meanings of Locality: Studies on the Arts, Urbanism, Polity, and Society (2016) and Perspectives on Traditional Settlements and Communities: Home, Form, and Culture in Indonesia (2014).

Table of Contents

Introduction.- PART I.- Chapter 1 Ontology of Urban Place.- Chapter 2 Urbanism, Residency, and Society.- Chapter 3 Lesson Learned from the Ancient Greek Polis.- Chapter 4 Urban Planning and Development.- Chapter 5 Urban Design and Urbanism.- Chapter 6 Environmentally Friendly Urbanism.- Chapter 7 Urbanism and the Global Age.- PART II EMPIRICAL EXPLORATION.- Chapter 8 Everyday Life of Urbanism in the West Malay World.- Chapter 9 Urbanism, Society, and Culture in the Malay Peninsular World: Bandar Malacca.- Chapter 10 Urbanism and Planning System in Malaysia.- Chapter 11 Urban Intentionality and Global Urbanism: Toronto as a case study.- Postscript.- References.