Ideas of the City in Asian Settings

Henco Bekkering is Emeritus Professor of Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. He has been Netherlands Visiting Professor at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, USA, and Visiting Scholar at the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR China. Dr. Adèle Esposito was trained as an architect and urban planner. She is a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS AUSser). Her research deals with the uses of cultural heritage in the contemporary development of Southeast Asian cities. Dr. Charles Goldblum is Emeritus Professor in Urban Planning at the University of Paris 8 and former director of the French Institute of Planning. Being a specialist in Southeast Asian urban studies and the author of several papers and books in this realm, he is currently associated researcher at AUSser/IPRAUS Research Laboratory (CNRS/ENSAPB).