Five cities : modelling Asian urban population-environment dynamics / editors, Gayl D. Ness with Michael M. Low.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ness, Gayl D.

Low, Michael M.

Asian Urban Information Center of Kobe.

University of Michigan. Population-Environment Dynamics Project.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--Asia.

Urbanization.

Cities and towns.

Growth.

Asia.

Cities and towns--Asia--Growth.

City planning--Asia.

City planning.

Asia--Population.

Population.

Physical Description:

xiv, 311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Modelling Asian urban population environment dynamics

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Summary:

This book documents important new research on the dynamic interactions between population and the urban environment. The focus is on five cities in Asia: Faisalbad in Pakistan, Khon Kaen in Thailand, Cebu in the Philippines, Pusan in South Korea, and Kobe in Japan. It provides both important case studies and powerful analytic models.

Contents:

Five cities : two by air and three by sea

The long view : urban population-environment dynamics in historical perspective

The methodological view : addressing Asian urban population-environmental dynamics

Faisalabad : a city under double pressures / Kashwar Ijaz, Kareem Iqbal, Ali Ijaz

Khon Kaen : heart of the north-east / Krase Chanawongse ... [et al.]

Cebu City : heart of the central Philippines / Wilhelm Flieger

Pusan : promises and challenges of rapid growth / Jung-Duk Lim

Kobe City : well-managed population-environment dynamics / Kiyoyuki Kanemitsu ... [et al.]

Five cities : lessons of matter and method / Gayl D. Ness

What is to be done? / Gayl D. Ness with Michael M. Low.

Notes:

"For AUICK and UMPEDP."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-300) and index.

ISBN:

0195886933

OCLC:

45277913