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Livability and Sustainability of Urbanism

An Interdisciplinary Study on History and Theory of Urban Settlement

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Authors:
  1. Bagoes Wiryomartono

    1. Toronto, Canada

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  • Offers an in-depth theoretical investigation on the meanings and roots of urbanism based on historical phenomena, literary sources, personal observations, and lived experience.

  • Offers new ways of thinking about the urban, and in so doing broadens and deepens the understanding of the concept of urbanism in dealing with the necessity for the livability and sustainability of the urban life-world

  • Provides a rich pool of knowledge comprising theoretical and empirical explorations of urban livability and sustainability, compiled and consolidated with the author’s lived-experience of practice and teaching in the field of urban planning and development for more than three decades.

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Theoretical Exploration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Ontology of Urban Place

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      Pages 3-16

    3. Urbanism, Residency, and Society

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      Pages 17-54

    4. Lesson Learned from the Ancient Greek Polis

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      Pages 55-80

    5. Urban Planning and Development

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      Pages 81-100

    6. Urban Design and Urbanism

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      Pages 101-123

    7. Environmentally Friendly Urbanism

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      Pages 125-154

    8. Urbanism and the Global Age

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      Pages 155-177

  3. Empirical Exploration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. Everyday Life of Urbanism in the West Malay World

      • Bagoes Wiryomartono
      Pages 181-204

    3. Urbanism, Society, and Culture in the Malay Peninsular World: Bandar Malacca

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      Pages 205-238

    4. Urbanism and Planning System in Malaysia

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      Pages 239-263

    5. Urban Intentionality and Global Urbanism: Toronto as a Case Study

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      Pages 265-290

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 291-324
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Toronto, Canada

    Bagoes Wiryomartono

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).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Livability and Sustainability of Urbanism

  • Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Study on History and Theory of Urban Settlement

  • Authors: Bagoes Wiryomartono

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8972-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8971-9Published: 18 July 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8974-0Published: 14 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-8972-6Published: 09 July 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 324

  • Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urbanism, Urban Studies/Sociology

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