Out Now: The Impossibility of Mapping

[View Email In Browser]( [World Scientific Publishing Co.]( [WorldSci]( [World Scientific Publishing Co.]( 20% Off | Use Code: WSMAR20 | Valid Until 15 April 2020 Out Now: The Impossibility of Mapping [The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia)]( [The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia)]( Edited By: Ute Meta Bauer, Khim Ong and Roger Nelson Following the lifework (1960s to 2010) of visionary Singaporean architect William S. W. Lim, The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia) is a compelling compilation of case studies and historical projects. This multifaceted publication takes Lim's ideas to a future Asia: a region defined by an irreducibly complex urban topography under constant flux. Looking from Singapore to Southeast Asia, and from this region to Asia more expansively (and beyond), it presents a diverse range of activities which may be productively framed through the notion of critical spatial practice. The book has three interconnected points of departure: Lim's lifework; the interdisciplinary exhibition 'Incomplete Urbanism: Attempts at Critical Spatial Practice' at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, and the related conference, 'The Impossibility of Mapping (Urban Asia)'; and the cross-cultural and urban festival 'CITIES FOR PEOPLE, NTU CCA Ideas Fest 2016/17', held at venues around Gillman Barracks, Singapore. The multiple links are emphasised in three key ways: through editorial texts, through design concepts, and through selected projects inserted as "intermissions" between each of the book's sections. Artists, planners, activists, architects, scholars get together in this volume to respond to Lim's critical spatial practice. Research essays, artworks, visual and textual documentation, spatio-temporal maps grapple with the diversity of Southeast Asia, offering unexpected responses to planning, building, and living cities and urban spaces, but also put forward the question, "Who owns the city?". This key collection offers a path into spatial questions in Asia and beyond, and serves as a teaching and research tool. [Shop Now]( Download A Sample [Chapter 1: Introduction - The City as Space to be Lived - A City for People]( Readership Artists, planners, activists, architects, scholars in architecture, Asian studies, the built environment, city planning, and urban studies, artistic interventions, art in public space. Suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Other Titles on Architecture and Urbanism by William S. W. Lim: [Public Space in Urban Asia]( [Download Sample]( [Public Space in Urban Asia]( Edited By: William SW Lim (Asian Urban Lab, Singapore) "Asian Urban Lab has brought together not only architects and urbanists, but also historians, documentary makers, journalists and sociologists, underscores the volume’s diversity and appeal. It is a multidisciplinary work that operates on multiple levels and within a variety of disciplines, yet it remains specific and reflective." International Institute of Asian Studies [Incomplete Urbanism]( [Download Sample]( [Incomplete Urbanism]( A Critical Urban Strategy for Emerging Economies By (author): William S W Lim (AA Asia, Singapore & Asian Urban Lab, Singapore) Foreword by: Leon van Schaik “We are then compelled to find new ways of hearing the other, new and local ways of engaging the world and to recognize the commensurability of different cultures. The book itself exhibits such a way of action that inspires and encourages to follow.” Prof. Dr. Zeynep Mennan Middle East Technical University, Turkey [Non West Modernist Past]( [Non West Modernist Past]( On Architecture & Modernities Edited By: William S W Lim (AA Asia, Singapore & Asian Urban Lab, Singapore) and Jiat-Hwee Chang This book provides a comprehensive historical and theoretical overview of modern architecture in regions outside the “West” — Europe and North America. It brings together contributions from leading scholars in the interdisciplinary fields of architecture history, architecture theory, area studies, sociology and cultural studies. 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