Download or read book The Disappearing 'Asian' City written by William Stewart Logan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Disappearing Asian City is a comparative study of urban heritage attitudes, threats, planning policies, and practices in a selection of fourteen Asian cities. It focuses on the theme of the steady erosion of what many Asian and Western commentators have regarded as the quintessential 'Asian' qualities of those cities, particularly in terms of their built form under the impact of current processes of rapid economic and cultural globalization.