Livability and Sustainability of Urbanism

Dr. Bagoes Wiryomartono is an independent scholar and currently on leave Faculty Member at the School of Design, University of Pelita Harapan, Karawaci Tangerang, Indonesia. He was Postdoctoral Fellow for architecture at the East-West Center, Honolulu and Fulbright Scholar at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. He previously has worked as Senior Lecturer at the Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia; Visiting Research Associate at the Asian Institute, University of Toronto, Canada; and Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. His teaching and research experience is focused on history, theory, and design of urbanism of various cultures and traditions in Southeast Asia and North America. He is author of Javanese Culture and the Meanings of Locality: Studies on the Arts, Urbanism, Polity, and Society (2016) and Perspectives on Traditional Settlements and Communities: Home, Form, and Culturein Indonesia (2014).

• Introduction.- PART I.- Chapter 1 Ontology of Urban Place.- Chapter 2 Urbanism, Residency, and Society.- Chapter 3 Lesson Learned from the Ancient Greek Polis.- Chapter 4 Urban Planning and Development.- Chapter 5 Urban Design and Urbanism.- Chapter 6 Environmentally Friendly Urbanism.- Chapter 7 Urbanism and the Global Age.- PART II EMPIRICAL EXPLORATION.- Chapter 8 Everyday Life of Urbanism in the West Malay World.- Chapter 9 Urbanism, Society, and Culture in the Malay Peninsular World: Bandar Malacca.- Chapter 10 Urbanism and Planning System in Malaysia.- Chapter 11 Urban Intentionality and Global Urbanism: Toronto as a case study.- Postscript.- References.