Alexander R Cuthbert
Biographic Data
| ID | 2040790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander R Cuthbert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander R |
| FAMILY NAME | Cuthbert |
| SIGNATURE | CUTHBERT A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Cultural Shift towards a Sustainable, Bicycle-Oriented Living in Bali
This paper focuses on the development of a sustainable bicycle-led transport system in Bali. Since the coronavirus pandemic, bicycle use has accelerated globally as a cheap, safe, sustainable and healthy form of transport. But given its global reputation for tourism, Bali is lagging massively behind bicycle transport in more developed economies. So, the paper progresses in five stages. First, the global context for bicycle use is examined. Second…
Ideology, science and the New Urban Design – critique and evolution
Urban design is a discipline that has a debatable theoretical foundation. It can be divided into two major elements. First, mainstream urban design. Second, what has been termed the ‘New Urban Design’. In the mainstream, there has been a substantial effort to contain debate within a scientific discourse. While this has been productive, it has also limited urban design theory to a scientific model, natural, proto or pseudo. Such approaches have no…
The rational and the empirical: Emeritus Professor Jon Lang interviewed by Alexander Cuthbert
Jon Lang has been intimately involved in the evolution of urban design as a discipline and as a professional activity for five decades. His endurance reflects an early training as a potential Olymp
Understanding fracture, inconsistency and the mnemonic in urban form
Eliot’s insight – the future of urban design
Taner’s mandate was ‘to reflect on the past and look to the future – where will urban design research and scholarship be in 2030?’ Here we are primarily challenged to examine one thing- the theoret
Sleight of Hand: The Expropriation of Balinese Culture
In a prior paper (Suartika, Zerby, & Cuthbert, 2018), cultural space and its social meaning were examined in detail. While the three main gateways into culture were analyzed, the actual processes through which culture is abstracted by capital were not discussed. Below we seek to advance on our initial model. Hence the dominant processes by which culture is both politicized and commodified by capital are explored using political economy as a refer…
Doors of Perception to Space–Time- Meaning: Ideology, Religion, and Aesthetics in Balinese Development
This article develops a conceptual framework to examine the ancestry and evolution of urban forms within the context of cultural space and its social meaning. The framework is intended as a means for organizing and interpreting information, as was Rapoport’s schema, but differs in its perspective. Rapoport begins with design elements and links them to culture; we begin with culture as a process and connect it with contextual settings through whic…
Urban Design
While the design of cities has been part of social life for at least 7,000 years, the discipline of urban design has only existed for approximately the last century. Herein lies the hiatus. On the one hand it can be argued that urban design originated with the evolution of urban life. Or alternatively, that urban design is an invention of modernity since it was part of the commodification of knowledge within professions and universities. Unequivo…
Urban Slum
The term “slum” has been used in a derogatory fashion for at least half a century, since it bonds the occupant's existential state within the same category as their accommodation and wider neighborhood. There is arguably no nation free of slum development of some kind. So the concept has relative qualities that make generalized statements prone to error, even within the same slum environment. While statistical information on slums is vital, it st…
Revisiting Reuter: Symbolic and material economies in Bali aga society
The objective of this paper is to analyse Thomas Reuter’s seminal text The Custodians of the Sacred Mountains and to discuss some of the theoretical and other issues that flow from the reading. Indirectly it is also intended to assist many local scholars who find the text somewhat impenetrable, let alone making connections to its extensive implications. The book is the second study to emerge that covers the regional basis for the Bali Aga, the fi…
Urban design: Requiem for an era – review and critique of the last 50 years
A debate from down-under: Spatial Political Economy and Urban Design
Architecture, Urban design, and Urban Planning, have a coterminous existence as praxis, yet they remain both theoretically and professionally isolated from each other. Urban design is arguably the worst off since it has no professional identity of its own. This position allows several events to take place. First, anybody can lay claim to being an urban designer, thus opening the gate to charlatans of all descriptions. Second, the two professions …
Going Global: Reflexivity and Contextualism in Urban Design Education
Over the years there have been few articles written about urban design education. Two general trends emerge: first, an attempt to establish , a priori, the basic skills required by urban designers; and secondly, to make up for the limitations of architectural and planning orthodoxy. The article reverses this process, suggesting for consideration a structure of educational principles and a coalition of theoretical ideas from the author's laborator…
Enter the dragon
Ambiguous space, ambiguous rights — corporate power and social control in Hong Kong
Redeveloping the fifth quarter
In search of the miraculous
For a Few Dollars More: Urban Planning and the Legitimation Process in Hong Kong
A Fistful of Dollars: Legitimation, Production and Debate in Hong Kong
Between two worlds
Hong Kong 1997: The Transition to Socialism-Ideology, Discourse, and Urban Spatial Structure
In this paper a complex and fascinating historical event is addressed; a political treaty between a dying imperialist power and a nation which has been responsible for one of the greatest social revolutions in human history. In 1984, Britain and The People's Republic of China (PRC) began negotiations which will determine the future of Hong Kong after 1997. The ensuing dialogue brings together the competing interests of two different cultures and …
Ambiguous space, ambiguous rights — corporate power and social control in Hong Kong
For a Few Dollars More: Urban Planning and the Legitimation Process in Hong Kong
A Fistful of Dollars: Legitimation, Production and Debate in Hong Kong
Redeveloping the fifth quarter
Hong Kong 1997: The Transition to Socialism-Ideology, Discourse, and Urban Spatial Structure
In this paper a complex and fascinating historical event is addressed; a political treaty between a dying imperialist power and a nation which has been responsible for one of the greatest social revolutions in human history. In 1984, Britain and The People's Republic of China (PRC) began negotiations which will determine the future of Hong Kong after 1997. The ensuing dialogue brings together the competing interests of two different cultures and …
In search of the miraculous
A debate from down-under: Spatial Political Economy and Urban Design
Architecture, Urban design, and Urban Planning, have a coterminous existence as praxis, yet they remain both theoretically and professionally isolated from each other. Urban design is arguably the worst off since it has no professional identity of its own. This position allows several events to take place. First, anybody can lay claim to being an urban designer, thus opening the gate to charlatans of all descriptions. Second, the two professions …
Between two worlds
Hong Kong 1997: The Transition to Socialism-Ideology, Discourse, and Urban Spatial Structure
In this paper a complex and fascinating historical event is addressed; a political treaty between a dying imperialist power and a nation which has been responsible for one of the greatest social revolutions in human history. In 1984, Britain and The People's Republic of China (PRC) began negotiations which will determine the future of Hong Kong after 1997. The ensuing dialogue brings together the competing interests of two different cultures and …
Between two worlds
For a Few Dollars More: Urban Planning and the Legitimation Process in Hong Kong
A Fistful of Dollars: Legitimation, Production and Debate in Hong Kong
Redeveloping the fifth quarter
In search of the miraculous
Enter the dragon
Ambiguous space, ambiguous rights — corporate power and social control in Hong Kong
Going Global: Reflexivity and Contextualism in Urban Design Education
Over the years there have been few articles written about urban design education. Two general trends emerge: first, an attempt to establish , a priori, the basic skills required by urban designers; and secondly, to make up for the limitations of architectural and planning orthodoxy. The article reverses this process, suggesting for consideration a structure of educational principles and a coalition of theoretical ideas from the author's laborator…
A debate from down-under: Spatial Political Economy and Urban Design
Architecture, Urban design, and Urban Planning, have a coterminous existence as praxis, yet they remain both theoretically and professionally isolated from each other. Urban design is arguably the worst off since it has no professional identity of its own. This position allows several events to take place. First, anybody can lay claim to being an urban designer, thus opening the gate to charlatans of all descriptions. Second, the two professions …
Urban design: Requiem for an era – review and critique of the last 50 years
Urban Design
While the design of cities has been part of social life for at least 7,000 years, the discipline of urban design has only existed for approximately the last century. Herein lies the hiatus. On the one hand it can be argued that urban design originated with the evolution of urban life. Or alternatively, that urban design is an invention of modernity since it was part of the commodification of knowledge within professions and universities. Unequivo…
Urban Slum
The term “slum” has been used in a derogatory fashion for at least half a century, since it bonds the occupant's existential state within the same category as their accommodation and wider neighborhood. There is arguably no nation free of slum development of some kind. So the concept has relative qualities that make generalized statements prone to error, even within the same slum environment. While statistical information on slums is vital, it st…
Revisiting Reuter: Symbolic and material economies in Bali aga society
The objective of this paper is to analyse Thomas Reuter’s seminal text The Custodians of the Sacred Mountains and to discuss some of the theoretical and other issues that flow from the reading. Indirectly it is also intended to assist many local scholars who find the text somewhat impenetrable, let alone making connections to its extensive implications. The book is the second study to emerge that covers the regional basis for the Bali Aga, the fi…
Doors of Perception to Space–Time- Meaning: Ideology, Religion, and Aesthetics in Balinese Development
This article develops a conceptual framework to examine the ancestry and evolution of urban forms within the context of cultural space and its social meaning. The framework is intended as a means for organizing and interpreting information, as was Rapoport’s schema, but differs in its perspective. Rapoport begins with design elements and links them to culture; we begin with culture as a process and connect it with contextual settings through whic…
Eliot’s insight – the future of urban design
Taner’s mandate was ‘to reflect on the past and look to the future – where will urban design research and scholarship be in 2030?’ Here we are primarily challenged to examine one thing- the theoret
Sleight of Hand: The Expropriation of Balinese Culture
In a prior paper (Suartika, Zerby, & Cuthbert, 2018), cultural space and its social meaning were examined in detail. While the three main gateways into culture were analyzed, the actual processes through which culture is abstracted by capital were not discussed. Below we seek to advance on our initial model. Hence the dominant processes by which culture is both politicized and commodified by capital are explored using political economy as a refer…
Understanding fracture, inconsistency and the mnemonic in urban form
Ideology, science and the New Urban Design – critique and evolution
Urban design is a discipline that has a debatable theoretical foundation. It can be divided into two major elements. First, mainstream urban design. Second, what has been termed the ‘New Urban Design’. In the mainstream, there has been a substantial effort to contain debate within a scientific discourse. While this has been productive, it has also limited urban design theory to a scientific model, natural, proto or pseudo. Such approaches have no…
The rational and the empirical: Emeritus Professor Jon Lang interviewed by Alexander Cuthbert
Jon Lang has been intimately involved in the evolution of urban design as a discipline and as a professional activity for five decades. His endurance reflects an early training as a potential Olymp
A Cultural Shift towards a Sustainable, Bicycle-Oriented Living in Bali
This paper focuses on the development of a sustainable bicycle-led transport system in Bali. Since the coronavirus pandemic, bicycle use has accelerated globally as a cheap, safe, sustainable and healthy form of transport. But given its global reputation for tourism, Bali is lagging massively behind bicycle transport in more developed economies. So, the paper progresses in five stages. First, the global context for bicycle use is examined. Second…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (11 works) · History (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works)