dc.contributor.author |
Abenayake, CC |
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dc.contributor.author |
Munasinghe, J |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2013-10-21T02:23:39Z |
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dc.date.available |
2013-10-21T02:23:39Z |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://dl.lib.mrt.ac.lk/handle/123/8396 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Contemporary urban planning practice often
conceptualize of urban areas as static entities
which could be planned towards certain end
states, and devoid of social, economic, and
political context, within which the spatial form
is produced and reproduced. There have been
many scholarly attempts to fill in this gap. The
main argument put forward in this study is
that the spatial form of an urban area is not a
static neutral entity, as mostly seen in
planning, but a dynamic process that
keeps evolving with many forces emerging
from both local and global context. In addition
to deliberate planning efforts, the spatial form
could be changed and organized by number of
external and internal agents associated with
it. In view of that, this study reformulated the
already known story of the evolution of
Kalutara town as a historic process, intending
to explain spatial form as an evolving
phenomenon. |
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dc.language |
en |
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dc.subject |
Social Process |
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dc.subject |
Planning practice |
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dc.subject |
Objective positioning |
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dc.subject |
Agents |
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dc.title |
A study of the spatial form of Kalutara town, Sri Lanka; as a unique historic process |
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dc.type |
Conference-Abstract |
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dc.identifier.year |
2009 |
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dc.identifier.conference |
Built Environment and Its Futures |
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dc.identifier.place |
Faculty of Architecture, University of Moratuwa |
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dc.identifier.proceeding |
2nd FARU Conference - 2009 |
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