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Explores How Urban Design Has Responded To The Trends Towards Global Standardisation. Following Analysis Of Its Practice In The Local Domain, This Book Looks At How Urban Planning And Design Should Be Repositioned. It Looks At: Population; Urbanization; Suburbanization; Tourism; Commercialization; Environmental Degradation; And, Flow Of Capital. Finding The Identity Of Place Through Local Landscapes: Mooban And Kampong / Sani Limthongsakul -- Erasure, Layering, Transformation, Absorption: The Convergence Of Formal Traditions / Sidh Sintusingha -- Between 'asianization' And 'new Cosmopolitanism': Housing In Twenty-first-century Singapore / Xavier Guillot -- Dissolved Identity And Disintegrated Globalization / Steven Whitford -- The Communal Project And The Reinforcement Of Values / Emmanuel Amougou Mballa -- Urban Development And Context: The Traditional Landscape And Globalization In Marrakech / Jean-noël Tournier -- The Urban Edge: Bangkok Soi As Mediators Of The Global And Local / Koen De Wandeler -- Eco-planning For Development In Northern Thailand / Thada Sutthitham -- Local Identity In Bangkok's Business Districts / Ornsiri Panin -- Transparency In Sustainable Development: Nhong Han Basin, Thailand / Eggarin Anukulyudhathon -- Restructuring The Medina In Tunis: El Hafsia / Wassim Ben Mahmoud -- Garden Urbanism In China And New Zealand / Matthew Bradbury -- Revitalizing The Montenegrin Village: Gornja Lastva / Laurence Feveile, Marija Nikolic And Nicolas Petrovitch Njegosh -- Strategies To Support Urban Identity: Are There European Models? / Carlos Gotlieb -- Mediating Global And Local: The Montreal Experience / Daniel Latouche -- New Practices In Urban Development / Jean-claude Margueritte -- Sustainable Tourism For Local Identity: The Hill-tribe Villages Of Northern Thailand / Wandee Pinijvarasin And Pasinee Sunakorn -- Making The City: The Bordeaux Experience / Michel Bergeron And Patrice Godier -- Casts, Roles And Scripts Of Otherness / Darko Radovic