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Gregory Bracken,Audrey Bracken
Handy guide to Dublin’s architecture is filled with easy-to-follow walks through the city, with clear maps, expert architectural insights and fascinating historical detail, not to mention beautiful hand-drawn illustrations. Each…
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This is the first colouring book to celebrate Dublin’s architecture. Forty of the city’s most iconic and beautiful buildings have been selected and each drawing is accompanied by succinct text…
Gregory Bracken
China’s rise is one of the transformative events of our time. Aspects of Urbanization in China: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou examines some of the aspects of China’s massive wave of…
See Singapore with fresh eyes
With its cutting-edge skyscrapers standing cheek to cheek with traditional Chinese shophouses, picturesque mosques, and neoclassical edifices of its colonial past, Singapore is a traveler’s…
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Gregory Byrne Bracken
Sketches of the city’s architectural treasures. Journey through Singapore’s urban landscape.
Gregory Bracken (International Institute of Asian Studies, the Netherlands)
As a nineteenth-century commercial development, the alleyway house was a hybrid of the traditional Chinese courtyard house and the Western terraced one. Unique to Shanghai, the alleyway house was a…
Gregory Bracken,Mathijs Van Oostrum
The Walking Tour City Guide series provides an engaging bridge between conventional tourist books that contain less information on architecture and academic books that are often too specialized. A Walking…
Future Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West investigates some of the greatest challenges facing society in the twenty-first century, including the struggle for rights and recognition by indigenous…
The ten essays in this book engage with some of the most critical urban questions of the near future across Asia.
This book is a collection of papers originally presented at a conference of the same name in the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden in 2016.
Explores the rise of Asian cities, dealing with history, geography, culture, architecture, urbanism, and other topics, and attempts to formulate a new understanding of what makes Asian cities such global…
Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self examines urban communities and societies in Asia and the West to shed much-needed light on issues that…
